1 National Maize Improvement Center of China, Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization/Engineering Research Center for
Maize Breeding, Ministry of Education, College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China 2 Bioscience, Wageningen University and Research, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands
†These authors contributed equally to this work. *Correspondences: Chenxu Liu (liucx@cau.edu.cn); Kim Boutilier (kim.boutilier@wur.nl); Shaojiang Chen (chen368@126.com, Dr. Chen
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