About the Authors

Dai-Yin Chao

dychao@sibs.ac.cn (DYC); fangjie.zhao@njau.edu.cn (FJZ); david.salt@abdn.ac.uk (DES)

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics (NKLPMG), Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Yi Chen

Affiliation Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Jiugeng Chen

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics (NKLPMG), Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Shulin Shi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Ziru Chen

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics (NKLPMG), Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Chengcheng Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

John M. Danku

Affiliation Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Fang-Jie Zhao

dychao@sibs.ac.cn (DYC); fangjie.zhao@njau.edu.cn (FJZ); david.salt@abdn.ac.uk (DES)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

David E. Salt

dychao@sibs.ac.cn (DYC); fangjie.zhao@njau.edu.cn (FJZ); david.salt@abdn.ac.uk (DES)

Affiliation Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: DYC FJZ DES. Performed the experiments: DYC JMD YC ZC JC SS CW. Analyzed the data: DYC FJZ DES. Wrote the paper: DYC FJZ DES.