About the Authors

Yingchun Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingchun Xu, Lingling Chu, Qijiang Jin

xyc@njau.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China

Lingling Chu

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingchun Xu, Lingling Chu, Qijiang Jin

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China

Qijiang Jin

Contributed equally to this work with: Yingchun Xu, Lingling Chu, Qijiang Jin

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China

Yanjie Wang

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China

Xian Chen

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China

Hui Zhao

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China

Zeyun Xue

Affiliation College of Horticulture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, 210095, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YX LC QJ. Performed the experiments: LC ZX XC. Analyzed the data: QJ LC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YX LC QJ YW XC HZ ZX. Wrote the paper: LC QJ ZX YX.