About the Authors

Chen Zhu

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Zhu, Chen Ming

Affiliations Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Chen Ming

Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Zhu, Chen Ming

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Xu Zhao-shi

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Li Lian-cheng

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Chen Xue-ping

mayouzhi@caas.cn (MYZ); chenxp08@ustc.edu.cn (CXP)

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Ma You-zhi

mayouzhi@caas.cn (MYZ); chenxp08@ustc.edu.cn (CXP)

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Triticeae Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CM CZ. Performed the experiments: CZ. Analyzed the data: CZ CM CXP MYZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MYZ CXP LLC XZS. Wrote the paper: CZ CM.