About the Authors

Jianmin Gao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianmin Gao, Yingxin Xie

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Yingxin Xie

Contributed equally to this work with: Jianmin Gao, Yingxin Xie

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Haiyang Jin

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Yuan Liu

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Xueying Bai

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Dongyun Ma

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Yunji Zhu

Affiliations National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China, College of Resources and Environment, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Chenyang Wang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Tiancai Guo

tcguo888@sina.com

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Wheat and Maize Crop Science/Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Grain Crops/National Engineering Research Center for Wheat, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, 450002, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JG YX TG. Performed the experiments: TG HJ YL XB. Analyzed the data: TG YX DM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ CW. Wrote the paper: JG YX.