About the Authors
- Li Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Delin Li
Affiliations College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Delin Li
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Contributed equally to this work with: Li Li, Delin Li
Current address: DATA Biotechnology Beijing limited company, Beijing, Hebei, China
Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics & Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, Hebei, China
- Sanzhen Liu
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Current address: Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Xiaoli Ma
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Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics & Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, Hebei, China
- Charles R. Dietrich
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Current address: Monsanto, Chesterfield, Missouri, USA
Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Heng-Cheng Hu
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Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
- Gaisheng Zhang
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Affiliation College of Agronomy, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China
- Zhiyong Liu
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Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics & Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, Hebei, China
- Jun Zheng
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Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, Hebei, China
- Guoying Wang
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Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, Hebei, China
- Patrick S. Schnable
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* E-mail: Schnable@iastate.edu
Affiliations Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America, Department of Plant Genetics & Breeding, China Agricultural University, Beijing, Hebei, China, Center for Plant Genomics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Competing Interests
Although co-author Delin Li is currently employed by DATA Biotechnology Beijing limited company all of his contributions to the current manuscript were completed while he was a graduate student at Chinese Agricultural University (CUA). A similar situation affects author Chuck Dietrich (i.e., although he is currently employed by Monsanto, the research reported in this manuscript was conducted while he was a student at Iowa State University). Thus, the authors do not have any conflicts of interest to report here.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SL PS. Performed the experiments: LL DL SL CD XM. Analyzed the data: SL DL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ GW. Wrote the manuscript: LL HH PS. Mentored graduate student authors: GZ ZL PS.