About the Authors

Yurong Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yurong Yang, Xiaozhen Han

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China

Xiaozhen Han

Contributed equally to this work with: Yurong Yang, Xiaozhen Han

Affiliation Plant Systems Biology Lab, Botany and Plant Science, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland

Yan Liang

Affiliations Joint BioEnergy Institute, 5885 Hollis St, Emeryville, California 94608, United States of America, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States of America

Amit Ghosh

Affiliation School of Energy Science and Engineering, PK Sinha Centre for Bioenergy, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India

Jie Chen

Affiliation College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China

Ming Tang

tangm@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY MT. Performed the experiments: YY XH. Analyzed the data: YY XH YL AG MT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YY MT JC. Wrote the paper: YY XH YL.