About the Authors

Biao Gu

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Shiv D. Kale

Affiliation Viginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Qinhu Wang

Affiliations College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Dinghe Wang

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Qiaona Pan

Affiliations College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Hua Cao

Affiliations College of Life Science, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Yuling Meng

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Zhensheng Kang

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Brett M. Tyler

btyler@vbi.vt.edu (BMT); wxshan@nwsuaf.edu.cn (WS)

Affiliation Viginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Weixing Shan

btyler@vbi.vt.edu (BMT); wxshan@nwsuaf.edu.cn (WS)

Affiliations College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China, State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology for Arid Areas, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WS BMT. Performed the experiments: BG SDK DW QP HC YM. Analyzed the data: WS BMT BG SDK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW ZK. Wrote the paper: WS BG BMT.