About the Authors

Quanzhen Wang

wangquanzhen191@163.com

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Bao Xie

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Chunhui Wu

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Guo Chen

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Zhengwei Wang

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Jian Cui

Affiliation Department of Plant Science, College of life Science, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Tianming Hu

Affiliation Department of Grassland Science, College of Animal Sciences and Technology, Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, People's Republic of China

Pawel Wiatrak

Affiliation Clemson University/Edisto Research and Education Center, Blackville, South Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX QW. Performed the experiments: BX CW GC. Analyzed the data: QW BX JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZW TH. Wrote the paper: QW BX PW.