About the Authors

Guozheng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guozheng Liu, Dandan Cao, Shuangshuang Li

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Dandan Cao

Contributed equally to this work with: Guozheng Liu, Dandan Cao, Shuangshuang Li

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shuangshuang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Guozheng Liu, Dandan Cao, Shuangshuang Li

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Aiguo Su

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jianing Geng

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Corrinne E. Grover

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Songnian Hu

jinping_hua@cau.edu.cn (SH); husn@big.ac.cn (JH)

Affiliation CAS Key Laboratory of Genome Sciences and Information, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jinping Hua

jinping_hua@cau.edu.cn (SH); husn@big.ac.cn (JH)

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH. Performed the experiments: GL DC SL AS. Analyzed the data: GL DC SH SL JG CEG JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH SH. Wrote the paper: GL CEG JH.