About the Authors

Shuhong Ouyang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuhong Ouyang, Dong Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Dong Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shuhong Ouyang, Dong Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jun Han

zhiyongliu@cau.edu.cn (ZL); hanjun4226@163.com (JH)

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Agriculture University of Beijing, Beijing, China

Xiaojie Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yu Cui

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Wei Song

Affiliations State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Maize Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China

Naxin Huo

Affiliation USDA-ARS West Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Yong Liang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Jingzhong Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Zhenzhong Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Qiuhong Wu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Yong-Xing Chen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Ping Lu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

De-Yun Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Lili Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Hua Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institutes of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Tsomin Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Gabriel Keeble-Gagnere

Affiliation Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Rudi Appels

Affiliation Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Jaroslav Doležel

Affiliation Institute of Experimental Botany, Centre of Plant Structural and Functional Genomics, Olomouc, Czech Republic

Hong-Qing Ling

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institutes of Genetics & Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Mingcheng Luo

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Yongqiang Gu

Affiliation USDA-ARS West Regional Research Center, Albany, California, United States of America

Qixin Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Zhiyong Liu

zhiyongliu@cau.edu.cn (ZL); hanjun4226@163.com (JH)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory for Agrobiotechnology/Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement/Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis Research & Utilization, Ministry of Education, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZL SO DZ JH YC ML YG. Performed the experiments: SO DZ JH XZ YC WS NH YL JX ZW QW YC PL DZ LW HS TY. Analyzed the data: SO DZ NH GKG HS YG ZL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SO DZ JH YXC WS TY RA JD HQL ML QS. Wrote the paper: SO JH YG ZL.