About the Authors

Yanchun Li

Affiliations School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Forestry University, Lin'an, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China, Agricultural Ecology Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Science, Fuzhou, Fujian, People's Republic of China

Cintia M. Coelho

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Unites States of America

Tian Liu

Affiliation Human Genetics Group, Genome institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

Song Wu

Affiliation Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jiasheng Wu

Affiliation School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Forestry University, Lin'an, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

Yanru Zeng

Affiliation School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Forestry University, Lin'an, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

Youchun Li

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Unites States of America

Brenda Hunter

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Unites States of America

Ricardo A. Dante

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Unites States of America

Brian A. Larkins

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, Unites States of America

Rongling Wu

rongling@princeton.edu

Affiliations School of Forestry and Biotechnology, Zhejiang Forestry University, Lin'an, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China, Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BAL RW. Performed the experiments: CMC YL BH RAD. Analyzed the data: YL TL SW JW YZ. Wrote the paper: RW.