1. College of Life Science, Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang 050024, China
2. Dry Land Farming Institute of Hebei Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Key Laboratory of Crop Drought Tolerance Research of Hebei Province, Hengshui 053000, China
3. Institute of Crop Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Crop Gene Resources and Breeding, Beijing 100081, China
4. Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China †Jianzhou Pang and Wei Zhang contributed equally to this work.
*Correspondences: Qiuju Liang (liangqiuju@caas.cn) and Xianmin Diao (diaoxianmin@caas.cn, Dr. Diao is fully responsible for the distribution of all materials associated with this article)
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 32241042 and 32301849) and the National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFF1000103), the China Agricultural Research System (CARS06‐13.5‐A04), a fellowship from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2022M723443) and the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.