About the Authors

Wenqiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenqiang Li, Zengbin Lu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Plant Protection, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

Zengbin Lu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenqiang Li, Zengbin Lu

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

Affiliation Maize Research Institute, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, National Engineering Laboratory of Wheat and Maize, Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Maize in Northern Yellow-Huai River Plain, Ministry of Agriculture, China, Jinan, China

Lili Li

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Plant Protection, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China

Yi Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Plant Protection, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China

Song Dong

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Plant Protection, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

Xingyuan Men

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

menxy2000@hotmail.com(XM); baohua@sdau.edu.cn(BY)

Affiliation Institute of Plant Protection, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan, China

Baohua Ye

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

menxy2000@hotmail.com(XM); baohua@sdau.edu.cn(BY)

Affiliation College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Tai’an, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.