About the Authors

Huai-Zhu Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Huai-Zhu Li, Xiao-Yan Li

Affiliation Department of Seed Science, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Xiang Gao

gx@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XG); xiaoyanli@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XYL)

Affiliations Department of Seed Science, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Wheat Engineering Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Xiao-Yan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Huai-Zhu Li, Xiao-Yan Li

gx@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XG); xiaoyanli@nwsuaf.edu.cn (XYL)

Affiliations Department of Seed Science, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Wheat Engineering Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Qi-Jiao Chen

Affiliations Department of Seed Science, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Wheat Engineering Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Jian Dong

Affiliations Department of Seed Science, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Wheat Engineering Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Wan-Chun Zhao

Affiliations Department of Seed Science, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China, Wheat Engineering Research Center of Shaanxi Province, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XYL XG. Performed the experiments: HZL XYL. Analyzed the data: HZL QJC JD WCZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HZL QJC XYL. Wrote the paper: HZL XYL.