About the Authors

Liangfeng Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liangfeng Liu, Yanyan Lai

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Jiangsu, PR China

Yanyan Lai

Contributed equally to this work with: Liangfeng Liu, Yanyan Lai

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Jiangsu, PR China

Jinping Cheng

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Jiangsu, PR China

Ling Wang

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Jiangsu, PR China

Wenli Du

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Jiangsu, PR China

Zhoufei Wang

wzf@njau.edu.cn (ZW); hszhang@njau.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Jiangsu, PR China

Hongsheng Zhang

wzf@njau.edu.cn (ZW); hszhang@njau.edu.cn (HZ)

Affiliation The Laboratory of Seed Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Jiangsu, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZW HZ. Performed the experiments: LL YL. Analyzed the data: LL YL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC LW WD. Wrote the paper: ZW.