About the Authors

Jixian Zhai

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jun Liu

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Research, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Bin Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Pingchuan Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, National Center for Plant Gene Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Blake C. Meyers

Affiliations Delaware Biotechnology Institute, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Xuemei Chen

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, Institute of Integrative Genome Research, University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States of America

Xiaofeng Cao

xfcao@genetics.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: J Zhai, J Liu, X Chen, X Cao. Performed the experiments: J Zhai, J Liu, B Liu. Analyzed the data: J Zhai, B Meyers. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: J Zhai, P Li, B Meyers. Wrote the paper: J Zhai, B Meyers, X Chen, X Cao.