About the Authors

Chi-Chu Tsai

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Chu Tsai, Huei-Chuan Shih, Hao-Ven Wang

tsaicc@mail.kdais.gov.tw (CCT); yuchung@mail.nsysu.edu.tw (YCC); choumasa@mail.cmu.edu.tw (CHC)

Affiliations Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, Pingtung 900, Taiwan, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan

Huei-Chuan Shih

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Chu Tsai, Huei-Chuan Shih, Hao-Ven Wang

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Meiho University, Pingtung 912, Taiwan

Hao-Ven Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Chi-Chu Tsai, Huei-Chuan Shih, Hao-Ven Wang

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan

Yu-Shium Lin

Affiliation Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, Pingtung 900, Taiwan

Chia-Hung Chang

Affiliation Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, Pingtung 900, Taiwan

Yu-Chung Chiang

tsaicc@mail.kdais.gov.tw (CCT); yuchung@mail.nsysu.edu.tw (YCC); choumasa@mail.cmu.edu.tw (CHC)

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Science and Environment Biology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan

Chang-Hung Chou

tsaicc@mail.kdais.gov.tw (CCT); yuchung@mail.nsysu.edu.tw (YCC); choumasa@mail.cmu.edu.tw (CHC)

Affiliation Research Center for Biodiversity, China Medical University, Taichung 404, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CCT HCS HVW YCC C. Chou. Performed the experiments: CCT YCC C. Chou. Analyzed the data: CCT YCC C. Chou HVW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YSL HCS C. Chang. Wrote the paper: CCT HCS HVW YCC C. Chou. Conceived of the study, edited the manuscript, and approved the final manuscript: CCT HCS HVW YSL C. Chang YCC C. Chou.