About the Authors

Guanqing Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Guanqing Jia, Xiaotong Liu

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Xiaotong Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guanqing Jia, Xiaotong Liu

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

James C. Schnable

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Zhengang Niu

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Chunfang Wang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Yuhui Li

Affiliation Institute of Millet Crops, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changzhi, Shanxi, P. R. China

Shujun Wang

Affiliation Institute of Millet Crops, Anyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Suying Wang

Affiliation Institute of Millet Crops, Anyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Jinrong Liu

Affiliation Institute of Millet Crops, Anyang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Anyang, Henan, P. R. China

Erhu Guo

Affiliation Institute of Millet Crops, Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Changzhi, Shanxi, P. R. China

Hui Zhi

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Xianmin Diao

diaoxianmin@caas.cn

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XD. Performed the experiments: GJ XL YL Shujun Wang Suying Wang. Analyzed the data: GJ XD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZ XD JL EG ZN CW. Wrote the paper: GJ JS XD.