About the Authors

Liping Ke

Contributed equally to this work with: Liping Ke, RuiE Liu, Bijue Chu

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

RuiE Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liping Ke, RuiE Liu, Bijue Chu

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Bijue Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liping Ke, RuiE Liu, Bijue Chu

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Xiushuang Yu

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Jie Sun

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Shihezi University, Shihezi, Xinjiang, China

Brian Jones

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Gang Pan

Affiliation College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Xiaofei Cheng

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Huizhong Wang

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Shuijin Zhu

Affiliation College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Yuqiang Sun

yqsun@hznu.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YQS SJZ. Performed the experiments: LPK REL BJC XSY. Analyzed the data: GP HZW SJZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS GP XFC. Wrote the paper: YQS BJ.