About the Authors

Maojun Wang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Daojun Yuan

xlzhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (XZ); robert@mail.hzau.edu.cn(DY)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Wenhui Gao

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yang Li

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Jiafu Tan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xianlong Zhang

xlzhang@mail.hzau.edu.cn (XZ); robert@mail.hzau.edu.cn(DY)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DY XZ. Performed the experiments: MW YL JT. Analyzed the data: MW WG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MW WG. Wrote the manuscript: MW. Proofread the manuscript and revised the manuscript: DY XZ.