About the Authors

Jian-Ying Feng

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Jin Zhang

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Wen-Jie Zhang

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Shi-Bo Wang

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Shi-Feng Han

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yuan-Ming Zhang

soyzhang@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YMZ. Performed the experiments: JYF JZ WJZ SBW SFH. Analyzed the data: JYF JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JYF. Wrote the paper: YMZ JYF.