About the Authors

Shuxin Zhang

Affiliation Center for Plant Science Innovation & School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Yuhui Liu

liuyuhui@caas.cn (YL); byu3@unl.edu (BY)

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences & Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Bin Yu

liuyuhui@caas.cn (YL); byu3@unl.edu (BY)

Affiliation Center for Plant Science Innovation & School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZ YL BY. Performed the experiments: SZ. Analyzed the data: SZ YL BY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ YL BY. Wrote the paper: SZ YL BY.