About the Authors

Xiuling Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yu Wang

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Wei Guo

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Yan Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Qi Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Longjiang Fan

Affiliation Institute of Crop Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Xueping Zhou

zzhou@zju.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XZ LF. Performed the experiments: XY WG YX. Analyzed the data: XY YW QX LF XZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XY WG YX. Wrote the manuscript: XY XZ.