About the Authors

Enying Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Enying Zhang, Zefeng Yang

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China, College of Agronomy and Plant Protection, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Zefeng Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Enying Zhang, Zefeng Yang

zfyang@yzu.edu.cn (ZY); qtls@yzu.edu.cn (CX)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Yifan Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Yunyun Hu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Xiyun Song

Affiliation College of Agronomy and Plant Protection, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Chenwu Xu

zfyang@yzu.edu.cn (ZY); qtls@yzu.edu.cn (CX)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZY CX. Performed the experiments: EZ YW YH. Analyzed the data: ZY EZ YW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EZ ZY XS. Wrote the paper: ZY EZ.