About the Authors

Jun Zou

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zou, Yusheng Zhao

zoujun@mail.hzau.edu.cn(JZ); reif@ipk-gatersleben.de(JCR)

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Yusheng Zhao

Contributed equally to this work with: Jun Zou, Yusheng Zhao

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Peifa Liu

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Lei Shi

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Xiaohua Wang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Meng Wang

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jinling Meng

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Jochen Christoph Reif

zoujun@mail.hzau.edu.cn(JZ); reif@ipk-gatersleben.de(JCR)

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: JZ JCR. Data curation: JZ MW JLM. Formal analysis: YSZ JZ MW. Funding acquisition: JZ. Methodology: YSZ JZ PFL JCR. Project administration: JZ JCR. Resources: JLM JZ LS XHW. Software: YSZ JCR JZ. Supervision: JZ JCR. Validation: YSZ MW PFL JZ. Writing – original draft: JZ YSZ. Writing – review & editing: JCR JLM.