About the Authors

Can-xing Duan

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Dan-dan Li

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Su-li Sun

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Xiao-ming Wang

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Zhen-dong Zhu

zhuzhendong@caas.cn

Affiliation The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: C-XD Z-DZ. Performed the experiments: D-DL C-XD. Analyzed the data: C-XD S-LS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: C-XD Z-DZ X-MW. Wrote the paper: C-XD S-LS.