About the Authors

Shi-Bao Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shi-Bao Zhang, Zhi-Jie Guan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Zhi-Jie Guan

Contributed equally to this work with: Shi-Bao Zhang, Zhi-Jie Guan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry and College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Mei Sun

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Juan-Juan Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Kun-Fang Cao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Hong Hu

huhong@mail.kib.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HH SBZ. Performed the experiments: ZJG MS JJZ. Analyzed the data: ZJG SBZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZJG JJZ SBZ. Wrote the paper: SBZ KFC HH.