About the Authors

Hai-Yan Lü

Affiliations Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, College of Information and Management Science, Henan Agricultural University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China

Xiao-Fen Liu

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Shi-Ping Wei

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Yuan-Ming Zhang

soyzhang@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation Section on Statistical Genomics, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YMZ. Performed the experiments: XFL HYL SPW. Analyzed the data: HYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HYL XFL SPW. Wrote the paper: YMZ HYL.