About the Authors

Lu Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Lin, Houhui Song

Affiliation Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Houhui Song

Contributed equally to this work with: Lu Lin, Houhui Song

Affiliation Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Yuetong Ji

Affiliation Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Zhili He

Affiliation Institute For Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Yunting Pu

Affiliation Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Jizhong Zhou

xujian@qibebt.ac.cn (JX); jzhou@ou.edu (JZ)

Affiliation Institute For Environmental Genomics, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America

Jian Xu

xujian@qibebt.ac.cn (JX); jzhou@ou.edu (JZ)

Affiliation Qingdao Institute of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, Shandong, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HS. Performed the experiments: LL YJ YP. Analyzed the data: LL HS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZH JZ JX. Wrote the paper: LL HS JX.