About the Authors

Guangdeng Chen

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China

Yaxi Liu

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China

Jun Ma

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Zhi Zheng

Affiliations Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia, School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Yuming Wei

Affiliation Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China

C. Lynne McIntyre

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

You-Liang Zheng

ylzheng@sicau.edu.cn (Y-LZ); chunji.liu@csiro.au (CL)

Affiliation Triticeae Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Wenjiang, Chengdu, China

Chunji Liu

ylzheng@sicau.edu.cn (Y-LZ); chunji.liu@csiro.au (CL)

Affiliation Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Plant Industry, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CL Y-LZ YW CLM. Performed the experiments: GC YL JM ZZ. Analyzed the data: GC JM CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GC CL. Wrote the paper: GC CL Y-LZ YW CLM.