About the Authors

Xiaojuan Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China, Graduate University of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Nathan G. Swenson

Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

S. Joseph Wright

Affiliation Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama

Liwen Zhang

Affiliation Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, Shandong, China

Kai Song

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Yanjun Du

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Jinlong Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Xiangcheng Mi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Haibao Ren

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Keping Ma

kpma@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SJW KM. Performed the experiments: XL SJW LZ KS YD XM HR. Analyzed the data: XL NGS SJW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ. Wrote the paper: XL NGS SJW KM.