About the Authors

Honglin Chen

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Lixia Wang

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Suhua Wang

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Chunji Liu

Affiliation CSIRO Plant Industry, Queensland Bioscience Precinct, Queensland, Australia

Matthew Wohlgemuth Blair

Affiliation Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Xuzhen Cheng

chengxuzhen@caas.cn

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HLC XZC. Performed the experiments: HLC. Analyzed the data: HLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SHW LXW. Wrote the paper: HLC XZC. Contributed to manuscript revision: MB CJL.