About the Authors

Jie Cai

Affiliations Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China, School of Life Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, China, Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China

Peng-Fei Ma

Affiliation Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

Hong-Tao Li

Affiliation Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

De-Zhu Li

dzl@mail.kib.ac.cn

Affiliation Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JC DZL. Performed the experiments: JC HTL. Analyzed the data: PFM HTL JC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JC PFM HTL. Wrote the paper: PFM JC HTL DZL.