About the Authors

Taiyun Wei

Contributed equally to this work with: Taiyun Wei, Changwei Zhang

Current address: Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, Fujian, PR China

Affiliations Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Changwei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Taiyun Wei, Changwei Zhang

Affiliations Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing , People's Republic of China

Xilin Hou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing , People's Republic of China

Hélène Sanfaçon

Affiliation Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada

Aiming Wang

Aiming.Wang@AGR.GC.CA

Affiliations Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Biology, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TW CZ AW. Performed the experiments: TW CZ. Analyzed the data: TW CZ XH HS AW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TW CZ XH HS AW. Wrote the paper: TW CZ XH HS AW.