About the Authors

Jie Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Lu, Cheng Chang

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Wheat Biology and Genetic Improvement on Southern Yellow & Huai River Valley, the Ministry of Agriculture, Hefei, 230036, China

Cheng Chang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jie Lu, Cheng Chang

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Wheat Biology and Genetic Improvement on Southern Yellow & Huai River Valley, the Ministry of Agriculture, Hefei, 230036, China

Hai-Ping Zhang

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Wheat Biology and Genetic Improvement on Southern Yellow & Huai River Valley, the Ministry of Agriculture, Hefei, 230036, China

Sheng-Xing Wang

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Wheat Biology and Genetic Improvement on Southern Yellow & Huai River Valley, the Ministry of Agriculture, Hefei, 230036, China

Genlou Sun

genlou.sun@smu.ca(GS); machuanxi@ahau.edu.cn(CXM)

Affiliations College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Wheat Biology and Genetic Improvement on Southern Yellow & Huai River Valley, the Ministry of Agriculture, Hefei, 230036, China, Department of Biology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, B3H3C3, Canada

Shi-He Xiao

Affiliation Institute of Crop Sciences, National Wheat Improvement Centre/The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, 100081, China

Chuan-Xi Ma

genlou.sun@smu.ca(GS); machuanxi@ahau.edu.cn(CXM)

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Key Laboratory of Wheat Biology and Genetic Improvement on Southern Yellow & Huai River Valley, the Ministry of Agriculture, Hefei, 230036, China

Competing Interests

This manuscript or substantial parts of it, submitted to the journal has not been under consideration by any other journal. No material submitted as part of a manuscript infringes existing copyrights, or the rights of a third party. All authors have approved the manuscript. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CC JL CXM. Performed the experiments: JL CC HPZ SXW. Analyzed the data: CC JL HPZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HPZ CXM. Wrote the paper: CC JL GLS SHX.