About the Authors

Lang Yan

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Xianjun Lai

Affiliation Maize Research Institute of Sichuan Agriculture University, Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Resource and Improvement, Ministry of Education, Wenjiang, Chengdu, People's Republic of China

Xuedan Li

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Changhe Wei

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Xuemei Tan

yizzhang@scu.edu.cn (YZ); txmyyf@scu.edu.cn (XT)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Yizheng Zhang

yizzhang@scu.edu.cn (YZ); txmyyf@scu.edu.cn (XT)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center for Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics, Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LY XMT YZZ. Performed the experiments: LY XJL XDL CHW. Analyzed the data: LY XJL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LY XJL. Wrote the paper: LY.