About the Authors

Shengli Jing

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Lei Zhang

Affiliation Engineering Research Center of Protection and Utilization for Biological Resources in Minority Regions, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Yinhua Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Bingfang Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Yan Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Hangjin Yu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Xi Zhou

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Rui Qin

Affiliation Engineering Research Center of Protection and Utilization for Biological Resources in Minority Regions, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Lili Zhu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Guangcun He

gche@whu.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Rice, College of Life Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GH SJ. Performed the experiments: SJ L. Zhang YM HY XZ. Analyzed the data: SJ L. Zhang. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SJ BL YZ RQ L. Zhu. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SJ GH.