About the Authors

Muhammad Ibrahim

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Ibrahim, Yu Shi

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan

Yu Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Muhammad Ibrahim, Yu Shi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Hui Qiu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Bin Li

libin0571@zju.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Amara Jabeen

Affiliation Department of Biosciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan

Liping Li

Affiliation Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

He Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Michael Kube

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Guanlin Xie

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Rice Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Yanli Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Guochang Sun

Affiliation State Key Laboratory Breeding Base for Zhejiang Sustainable Pest and Disease Control, Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BL GLX YLW GCS. Performed the experiments: MI YS. Analyzed the data: MI YS HQ AJ LPL HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BL GLX YLW GCS. Wrote the paper: MI BL MK.