About the Authors

Qingzhi Liang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingzhi Liang, Lianguang Shang

Current address: The Key Laboratory of Tropical Fruit Biology of Ministry of Agriculture, South Subtropical Crops Research Institutes, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Zhanjiang, 524091, Guangdong, China

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, P. R. China

Lianguang Shang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qingzhi Liang, Lianguang Shang

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, P. R. China

Yumei Wang

Affiliation Research Institute of Cash Crops, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Wuhan, 430064, Hubei, China

Jinping Hua

jinping_hua@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Plant Genetics and Breeding/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization of Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH. Performed the experiments: QL YW. Analyzed the data: QL LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JH. Wrote the paper: QL JH. Screened polymorphic primers: QL.