About the Authors

Wenfei Xiao

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Hongbo Liu

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Yu Li

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Xianghua Li

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Caiguo Xu

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Manyuan Long

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Shiping Wang

swang@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Affiliation National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, National Center of Plant Gene Research (Wuhan), Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WX SW. Performed the experiments: WX HL YL XL CX. Analyzed the data: WX HL YL ML SW. Wrote the paper: WX ML SW.