About the Authors

Yulin Jia

Yulin.jia@ars.usda.gov

Affiliation Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States of America

Melissa H. Jia

Affiliation Dale Bumpers National Rice Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States of America

Xueyan Wang

Affiliation Department of Biology, College of Life Sciences, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Guangjie Liu

Affiliation Rice Research and Extension Center, University of Arkansas, Stuttgart, Arkansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJ MHJ. Performed the experiments: YJ MHJ XW GL. Analyzed the data: MHJ YJ GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YJ GL MHJ XW. Wrote the paper: YJ MHJ GL XW.