About the Authors

Xing Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Fan, Li-Na Sha

Affiliations Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources and Improvement, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Li-Na Sha

Contributed equally to this work with: Xing Fan, Li-Na Sha

Affiliation Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Jian Zeng

Affiliation College of Resources and Environment, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Hou-Yang Kang

Affiliation Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Hai-Qin Zhang

Affiliation Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Li Wang

Affiliation Department of Biology and Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Li Zhang

Affiliation Department of Biology and Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Rui-Wu Yang

Affiliation Department of Biology and Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Chun-Bang Ding

Affiliation Department of Biology and Science, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

You-Liang Zheng

Affiliations Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources and Improvement, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Yong-Hong Zhou

zhouyh@sicau.edu.cn

Affiliations Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resources and Improvement, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Agricultural University, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XF YHZ. Performed the experiments: XF JZ HYK HQZ. Analyzed the data: XF LNS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XLW LZ RWY CBD YLZ. Wrote the paper: XF LNS YHZ.