About the Authors

Libao Cheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Libao Cheng, Shuyan Li

Affiliation School of Horticulture and Plant Protection of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Shuyan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Libao Cheng, Shuyan Li

Affiliation School of Horticulture and Plant Protection of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Jingjing Yin

Affiliation School of Horticulture and Plant Protection of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Liangjun Li

ljli@yzu.edu.cn (LL); xhchen@ yzu.edu.cn (XC)

Affiliation School of Horticulture and Plant Protection of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Xuehao Chen

ljli@yzu.edu.cn (LL); xhchen@ yzu.edu.cn (XC)

Affiliation School of Horticulture and Plant Protection of Yangzhou University, Yangzhou Jiangsu, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL XC. Performed the experiments: LC SL JY. Analyzed the data: LC JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY. Wrote the paper: LC SL.