Institutional affiliations:
1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genetics and Physiology/Co-Innovation Center for Modern Production Technology of Grain Crops, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
2. Key Laboratory of Plant Functional Genomics of the Ministry of Education/Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Crop Genomics and Molecular Breeding, College of Agriculture, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
3. Lixiahe Agricultural Research Institute of Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou, 225007, China.
4. Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN 37209, USA.