About the Authors

Cong Li

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Biological Science and Technology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Shenyang Key Laboratory of Maize Genomic Selection Breeding, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Yu Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation College of Biological Science and Technology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Jing Tian

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliations College of Biological Science and Technology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Shenyang Key Laboratory of Maize Genomic Selection Breeding, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Yanshu Zhu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Biological Science and Technology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Shenyang Key Laboratory of Maize Genomic Selection Breeding, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Jinjuan Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

jinjuanf@hotmail.com

Affiliations College of Biological Science and Technology, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China, Shenyang Key Laboratory of Maize Genomic Selection Breeding, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.