About the Authors

Andrew J. Cal

andrew.j.cal@gmail.com

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines

Dongcheng Liu

Current address: Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines

Ramil Mauleon

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines

Yue-Ie Caroline Hsing

Affiliation Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Rachid Serraj

Current address: International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria

Affiliation International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños, Philippines

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DL RM RS. Performed the experiments: DL. Analyzed the data: AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YCH. Wrote the paper: AC.