About the Authors

Dafeng Hui

dhui@tnstate.edu (DH); renhai@scib.ac.cn (HR)

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Jun Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Weijun Shen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Xuan Le

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Philip Ganter

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Hai Ren

dhui@tnstate.edu (DH); renhai@scib.ac.cn (HR)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

Dafeng Hui is Academic Editor for PLoS One. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DH HR WS. Analyzed the data: DH JW XL. Wrote the paper: DH HR PG.