About the Authors

Shanshan Shi

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

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical biology and biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China

M. Alejandra Mandel

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

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

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical biology and biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences, Haikou, China

Morag Ferguson

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya

Teddy Amuge

Roles Investigation, Resources

Affiliation International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nairobi, Kenya

Steve Rounsley

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genus plc, DeForest, Wisconsin, United States of America

Zhixin Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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.