About the Authors

Jian-Long Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Long Xu, Yun Wang, Fan Zhang

Affiliations Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China, Shenzhen Institute for Innovative Breeding, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China

Yun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Long Xu, Yun Wang, Fan Zhang

Affiliation Rice Institute of Shenyang Agricultural University/Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology, Genetics and Breeding, Ministry of Agriculture, Shenyang 110866, China

Fan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jian-Long Xu, Yun Wang, Fan Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China

Yuan Wu

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

Tian-Qing Zheng

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China

Yong-Hong Wang

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Xiu-Qin Zhao

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China

Yan-Ru Cui

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China

Kai Chen

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China

Qiang Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China

Hong-Xuan Lin

Affiliation Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200032, China

Jia-Yang Li

Affiliation Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

Zhi-Kang Li

lizhikang@caas.cn

Affiliations Institute of Crop Sciences/National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 12 South Zhong-Guan-Cun Street, Beijing 100081, China, Shenzhen Institute for Innovative Breeding, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Shenzhen 518120, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZKL JLX HXL JYL. Performed the experiments: Y. Wang Y. Wu TQZ YHW XQZ YRC KC QZ. Analyzed the data: ZF Y. Wang YHW. Wrote the paper: ZKL JLX.