About the Authors

Dongshi Wan

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongshi Wan, Yongshuai Sun

Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

Yongshuai Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongshi Wan, Yongshuai Sun

Affiliations Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China, College of Life Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, P. R. China

Xu Zhang

Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

Xiaotao Bai

Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

Jun Wang

Affiliation Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China

Ailan Wang

tonywan2005@gmail.com

Affiliations Gansu Key Laboratory of Biomonitoring and Bioremediation for Environmental Pollution, School of Life Sciences , Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, P. R. China, School of Life and Sciences, Ludong University, Yantai, Shandong, P. R. China

Richard Milne

Affiliation Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AW DW. Performed the experiments: DW YS XZ. Analyzed the data: AW DW YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: XZ XB JW. Wrote the paper: AW DW YS RM.