About the Authors

Xianqing Jia

Contributed equally to this work with: Xianqing Jia, Qijun Zhang, Mengmeng Jiang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Qijun Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xianqing Jia, Qijun Zhang, Mengmeng Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, China

Mengmeng Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Xianqing Jia, Qijun Zhang, Mengmeng Jiang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Ju Huang

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Luyao Yu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Milton Brian Traw

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

Dacheng Tian

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Laurence D. Hurst

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bssldh@bath.ac.uk (LDH); sihaiyang@nju.edu.cn (SY)

Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Sihai Yang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

bssldh@bath.ac.uk (LDH); sihaiyang@nju.edu.cn (SY)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, State Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.