About the Authors

Bihai Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Bihai Shi, Cui Zhang

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

Cui Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Bihai Shi, Cui Zhang

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

Caihuan Tian

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

Jin Wang

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

Quan Wang

Affiliations Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany, Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen, China

Tengfei Xu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest China, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yan Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas, Ministry of Agriculture Key Laboratory of Horticultural Plant Biology and Germplasm Innovation in Northwest China, College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Carolyn Ohno

Affiliation Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Robert Sablowski

Affiliation Cell and Developmental Biology Department, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, United Kingdom

Marcus G. Heisler

Affiliation Developmental Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany

Klaus Theres

Affiliation Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany

Ying Wang

pkuwangying@pku.org.cn (YW); yljiao@genetics.ac.cn (YJ)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China, Frontier Laboratory of Crop Design, Beijing, China

Yuling Jiao

pkuwangying@pku.org.cn (YW); yljiao@genetics.ac.cn (YJ)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJ YW. Performed the experiments: BS CZ CT JW TX YX YW. Analyzed the data: BS CZ JW YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW CO RS MGH KT. Wrote the paper: YJ YW KT.