About the Authors

Zhoufei Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhoufei Wang, Zhiwei Chen

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Zhiwei Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhoufei Wang, Zhiwei Chen

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jinping Cheng

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Yanyan Lai

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Jianfei Wang

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Yongmei Bao

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Ji Huang

hszhang@njau.edu.cn (HZ); huangji@njau.edu.cn (JH)

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Hongsheng Zhang

hszhang@njau.edu.cn (HZ); huangji@njau.edu.cn (JH)

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH HZ. Performed the experiments: ZC JC. Analyzed the data: ZW YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW YB. Wrote the paper: ZW.