About the Authors

Wei Zhang

Affiliations Marine College, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sheng-long Kan

Affiliation Marine College, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China

Hong Zhao

Affiliation Marine College, Shandong University at Weihai, Weihai, China

Zhen-yu Li

lizy@ibcas.ac.cn (ZYL); xiaoq_wang@ibcas.ac.cn (XQW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xiao-quan Wang

lizy@ibcas.ac.cn (ZYL); xiaoq_wang@ibcas.ac.cn (XQW)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZYL XQW. Performed the experiments: WZ SLK HZ. Analyzed the data: WZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WZ HZ. Wrote the paper: WZ.