About the Authors

Yong Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Zhou, Zhiyun Gong, Zefeng Yang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Zhiyun Gong

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Zhou, Zhiyun Gong, Zefeng Yang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Zefeng Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong Zhou, Zhiyun Gong, Zefeng Yang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Yuan Yuan

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Jinyan Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Food Crops, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Man Wang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Fuhai Yuan

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Shujun Wu

Affiliation Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shanghai, China

Zhiqin Wang

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Chuandeng Yi

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Tinghua Xu

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

MyongChol Ryom

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Minghong Gu

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Guohua Liang

ricegb@yzu.edu.cn

Affiliation Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Education for Plant Functional Genomics, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ MG GL. Performed the experiments: YZ ZG ZY YY JZ MW FY TX. Analyzed the data: YZ ZG ZY GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SW ZW CY MR. Wrote the paper: YZ GL.