About the Authors

Erru Yu

Contributed equally to this work with: Erru Yu, Chuchuan Fan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Chuchuan Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Erru Yu, Chuchuan Fan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Qingyong Yang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xiaodong Li

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China, Guizhou Institute of Prataculture, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

Bingxi Wan

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yanni Dong

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Xuemin Wang

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Yongming Zhou

ymzhou@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YZ CF EY. Performed the experiments: CF EY XL. Analyzed the data: EY QY XL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CF EY BW YD XW. Wrote the paper: EY XL YZ.