About the Authors

Danying Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Song Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Zaiman Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Key Technology on Agricultural Machine and Equipment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Chenglin Ji

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Chunmei Xu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Xiufu Zhang

chais.zju@gmail.com

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, China National Rice Research Institute, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Bhagirath Singh Chauhan

Affiliation Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, University of Queensland, Queensland, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DYW. Performed the experiments: DYW SC ZMW CLJ XFZ. Analyzed the data: DYW CMX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XFZ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: DYW BSC.