About the Authors

Ram C. Poudel

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, The Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Michael Möller

gaolm@mail.kib.ac.cn (LMG); dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn (DZL); m.moeller@rbge.org.uk (MM)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Lian-Ming Gao

gaolm@mail.kib.ac.cn (LMG); dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn (DZL); m.moeller@rbge.org.uk (MM)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Antje Ahrends

Affiliation Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sushim R. Baral

Affiliation National Herbarium and Plant Laboratories, Department of Plant Resources, Godawari, Lalitpur, Nepal

Jie Liu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Philip Thomas

Affiliation Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

De-Zhu Li

gaolm@mail.kib.ac.cn (LMG); dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn (DZL); m.moeller@rbge.org.uk (MM)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MM LMG SRB DZL. Performed the experiments: RCP JL. Analyzed the data: RCP LMG AA. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RCP MM LMG SRB JL. Wrote the paper: RCP MM LMG AA PT DZL.