About the Authors

Xiaoming Jiao

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia, Biotechnology Research Institute/The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiaochun Zhao

Current address: National Citrus Engineering Research Centre, Citrus Research Institute, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Xue-Rong Zhou

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Allan G. Green

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Yunliu Fan

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute/The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Lei Wang

wanglei01@caas.net.cn (LW); qing.liu@csiro.au (QL)

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute/The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Surinder P. Singh

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Qing Liu

wanglei01@caas.net.cn (LW); qing.liu@csiro.au (QL)

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Plant Industry, Canberra, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QL AGG SPS. Performed the experiments: XJ XZ XRZ. Analyzed the data: XJ LW YLF QL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QL XJ SPS. Wrote the paper: XJ LW SPS QL.