About the Authors

Yueai Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yueai Lin, Chenlu Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Chenlu Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yueai Lin, Chenlu Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Hai Lan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Shibin Gao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Hailan Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Jian Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Moju Cao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Guangtang Pan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Tingzhao Rong

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Suzhi Zhang

suzhi1026@163.com

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Breeding of Maize in Southwest China of Agricultural Department, Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SZZ SBG. Performed the experiments: YAL CLZ. Analyzed the data: SZZ H. Lan H. Liu MJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZZ YAL JL GTP TZR. Wrote the paper: SZZ.