About the Authors

Taiyun Wei

Affiliations Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Changwei Zhang

Affiliations Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, People's Republic of China

Jian Hong

Affiliation Center of Analysis and Measurement, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Ruyi Xiong

Affiliation Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada

Kristin D. Kasschau

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Xueping Zhou

Affiliation Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

James C. Carrington

Affiliation Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Aiming Wang

Aiming.Wang@AGR.GC.CA

Affiliations Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW AW. Performed the experiments: TW CZ JH RX KDK. Analyzed the data: TW CZ JH RX KDK XZ JCC AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW JCC AW. Wrote the paper: TW JCC AW.