About the Authors

Qingmei Guan

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jianmin Wu

Current address: Institute of Genomic Medicine, Wenzhou Medical College, Zhejiang, China.

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Xiule Yue

Current address: Key Laboratory of Cell Activities and Stress Adaptations, Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China.

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Yanyan Zhang

Current address: College of Tourism and Food Science, Shanghai Business School, Shanghai, China.

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Jianhua Zhu

jhzhu@umd.edu

Affiliation Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QG JW XY YZ JZ. Performed the experiments: QG JW XY YZ JZ. Analyzed the data: QG JZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QG JZ. Wrote the paper: QG JZ.