About the Authors

Xiaobo Wang

Affiliation School of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Haowei Zhang

Affiliation School of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Yali Gao

Affiliation School of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Genlou Sun

Affiliations School of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China, Biology Department, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Wenming Zhang

Affiliation School of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, China

Lijuan Qiu

qiulijuan@caas.cn

Affiliation National Key Facility for Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Germplasm Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XBW LJQ. Performed the experiments: XBW HWZ YLG. Analyzed the data: XBW GLS LJQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XBW YLG WMZ. Wrote the paper: XBW LJQ GLS.