About the Authors

Xingming Hu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China, National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Qian Qian

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Ting Xu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China, Graduate University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yu'e Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Guojun Dong

Affiliation National Rice Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Ting Gao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Qi Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Yongbiao Xue

ybxue@genetics.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Center for Plant Gene Research, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX. Performed the experiments: XH TX YZ GD TG. Analyzed the data: YX XH QQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QQ QX. Wrote the paper: YX XH.