About the Authors

Xia Yan

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Ya Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Xiaofeng Yue

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Congcong Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yawei Que

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Dandan Kong

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Zhonghua Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Nicholas J. Talbot

Affiliation School of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

Zhengyi Wang

zhywang@zju.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XY ZW. Performed the experiments: XY YL XFY CW YQ DK ZM ZW. Analyzed the data: XY ZW YL NJT. Wrote the paper: XY ZW NJT.