About the Authors
- Shanshan Shi
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Institute of Tropical biology and biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China, School of Plant Sciences and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Xiuchun Zhang
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Tropical biology and biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China
- M. Alejandra Mandel
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation School of Plant Sciences and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
- Peng Zhang
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Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics, CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences, Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
- Yuliang Zhang
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Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Institute of Tropical biology and biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China
- Morag Ferguson
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Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya
- Teddy Amuge
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Roles Investigation, Resources
Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya
- Steve Rounsley
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Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Genus plc, DeForest, Wisconsin, United States of America
- Zhixin Liu
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: zxiong@email.arizona.edu (ZX); liuzhixin@itbb.org.cn (ZL)
Affiliation Institute of Tropical biology and biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China
- Zhongguo Xiong
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: zxiong@email.arizona.edu (ZX); liuzhixin@itbb.org.cn (ZL)
Affiliation School of Plant Sciences and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. One of the authors (SR) is affiliated with Genus plc, DeForest, WI, USA, however this affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.