About the Authors

Xinguo Mao

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Shuangshuang Chen

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Ang Li

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Chaochao Zhai

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Ruilian Jing

jingrl@caas.net.cn

Affiliation The Key Laboratory for Crop Gene Resources and Germplasm Enhancement, Ministry of Agriculture, The National Key Facility for Crop Gene Resources and Genetic Improvement, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authers have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XM RJ. Performed the experiments: SC AL CZ. Analyzed the data: XM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XM. Wrote the paper: XM.