About the Authors

Yanshi Xia

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanshi Xia, Ronghua Li

Affiliations International Crop Research Center for Stress Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China, College of Light Industry and Food Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Ronghua Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanshi Xia, Ronghua Li

Affiliation International Crop Research Center for Stress Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

Zhengxiang Ning

Affiliation College of Light Industry and Food Science, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

Guihua Bai

Affiliation Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture - Agricultural Research Service, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Kadambot H. M. Siddique

Affiliation The Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Australia

Guijun Yan

Affiliation The Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, Australia

Michael Baum

Affiliation International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria

Rajeev K. Varshney

Affiliation International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Greater Hyderabad, India

Peiguo Guo

guopg@yahoo.com

Affiliation International Crop Research Center for Stress Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PG RL YX. Performed the experiments: YX RL ZN PG. Analyzed the data: YX RL ZN GB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PG RL ZN GB RKV MB. Wrote the paper: YX GB KHMS PG RKV GY MB.