About the Authors

Songtao Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

Tinashe Zenda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

Jiao Li

Roles Investigation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

Yafei Wang

Roles Investigation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

Xinyue Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

Huijun Duan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

hjduan@hebau.edu.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Crop Improvement and Regulation, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, North China Key Laboratory for Crop Germplasm Resources of the Education Ministry, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China, Department of Crop Genetics and Breeding, College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Furthermore, the founding sponsors had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results.