About the Authors

Xianwen Zhang

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Hunan Province, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Jiaping Li

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Ailing Liu

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Hunan Province, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Jie Zou

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Xiaoyun Zhou

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Hunan Province, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Jianhua Xiang

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Wirat Rerksiri

Affiliation College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Yan Peng

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Hunan Province, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Xingyao Xiong

xiongxingyao@yahoo.cn (XX); xinbochen@live.cn (XC)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Hunan Province, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Xinbo Chen

xiongxingyao@yahoo.cn (XX); xinbochen@live.cn (XC)

Affiliations Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Innovation and Utilization of Hunan Province, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China, College of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XC XX XWZ. Performed the experiments: XWZ AL JZ XYZ. Analyzed the data: XWZ JL AL JZ WR XC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JL JX YP. Wrote the paper: XWZ XC XX.