About the Authors

Tao Li

t.li@irri.org (TL); j.ali@irri.org (JA)

Affiliation Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Jauhar Ali

t.li@irri.org (TL); j.ali@irri.org (JA)

Affiliation Plant Breeding Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines

Manuel Marcaida III

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Marcaida III, Olivyn Angeles, Emmali Manalo, Zhikang Li

Affiliation Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Olivyn Angeles

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Marcaida III, Olivyn Angeles, Emmali Manalo, Zhikang Li

Affiliation Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Neil Johann Franje

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Plant Breeding Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines

Jastin Edrian Revilleza

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Plant Breeding Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines

Emmali Manalo

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Marcaida III, Olivyn Angeles, Emmali Manalo, Zhikang Li

Affiliation Crop and Environmental Sciences Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines

Edilberto Redoña

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Plant Breeding Division, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines, Delta Research and Extension Center, Mississippi State University, Stoneville, Mississippi, United States of America

Jianlong Xu

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haidan District, Beijing, China

Zhikang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Manuel Marcaida III, Olivyn Angeles, Emmali Manalo, Zhikang Li

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Haidan District, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TL JA. Data curation: MM OA NJF JER. Formal analysis: TL. Funding acquisition: JA ZL. Investigation: TL MM. Methodology: TL. Project administration: JA JX ZL. Resources: TL JA MM. Software: TL. Supervision: TL JA. Validation: TL JA MM OA. Visualization: EM. Writing – original draft: TL. Writing – review & editing: JA MM OA EM ER ZL.