About the Authors

Fa Yuan Wang

wfy1975@163.com

Affiliation Agricultural College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China

Rui Jian Tong

Affiliation Department of Life Science, Luoyang Normal University, Luoyang, China

Zhao Yong Shi

Affiliation Agricultural College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China

Xiao Feng Xu

Affiliation Agricultural College, Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, China

Xin Hua He

Affiliations Centre for Ecosystem Management, School of Natural Resources, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Austrailia, State Centre of Excellence for Ecohydrology and School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FYW. Performed the experiments: RJT ZYS XFX. Analyzed the data: FYW XHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FYW RJT. Wrote the paper: FYW XHH.