About the Authors

Haiyan Xiong

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyan Xiong, Jinjie Li

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jinjie Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Haiyan Xiong, Jinjie Li

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Pengli Liu

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Junzhi Duan

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yan Zhao

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiao Guo

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Yang Li

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Hongliang Zhang

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Jauhar Ali

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Metro Manila, Philippines

Zichao Li

lizichao@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Lab of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education and Beijing Key Lab of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and have the following conflicts: Co-author Jauhar Ali is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member, but this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZCL JJL HLZ JA. Performed the experiments: HYX PLL JZD YZ XG YL. Analyzed the data: HYX JJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZCL JA. Wrote the paper: HYX JJL ZCL.