About the Authors

Dianyi Shi

weiweijin@cau.edu.cn (WJ); dyshi@sibs.ac.cn (DS)

Affiliations National Maize Improvement Center of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and Genome of Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Xu Zheng

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Liang Li

Affiliation National Maize Improvement Center of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and Genome of Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Wanhuang Lin

Affiliation Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Phytohormones and Growth Development, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China

Wenjun Xie

Affiliation National Maize Improvement Center of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and Genome of Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jianping Yang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Shaojiang Chen

Affiliation National Maize Improvement Center of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and Genome of Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Weiwei Jin

weiweijin@cau.edu.cn (WJ); dyshi@sibs.ac.cn (DS)

Affiliation National Maize Improvement Center of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement and Genome of Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WJ DS. Performed the experiments: DS XZ LL WL. Analyzed the data: DS WL WX JY SC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LL WX SC. Wrote the manuscript: DS.