About the Authors

Guangbin Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Gang Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Yi Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jing Ma

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Hua Xu

hxu@issas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Kazuyuki Yagi

Affiliation National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, 3-1-3 Kannondai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HX JM GZ. Performed the experiments: GZ JM GL YZ. Analyzed the data: HX GZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HX KY. Wrote the paper: GZ HX. Obtained permission for use: HX GZ.