About the Authors

Xin-Ju Xiao

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin-Ju Xiao, Ke-Wei Liu

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China/The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, Continuing Education College of Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Ke-Wei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Xin-Ju Xiao, Ke-Wei Liu

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China/The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, The Center for Biotechnology and BioMedicine, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China

Yu-Yun Zheng

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China/The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Yu-Ting Zhang

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China/The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Wen-Chieh Tsai

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Plant Sciences, and Orchid Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China

Yu-Yun Hsiao

Affiliation Department of Life Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China

Guo-Qiang Zhang

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China/The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Li-Jun Chen

chenlj@sinicaorchid.org (L-JC); liuzj@sinicaorchid.org (Z-JL)

Affiliation Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China/The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China

Zhong-Jian Liu

chenlj@sinicaorchid.org (L-JC); liuzj@sinicaorchid.org (Z-JL)

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China/The Orchid Conservation & Research Center of Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China, The Center for Biotechnology and BioMedicine, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China, College of Forestry, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: Z-JL L-JC X-JX K-WL. Performed the experiments: X-JX K-WL Y-YZ Z-JL G-QZ. Analyzed the data: Z-JL X-JX K-WL L-JC W-CT Y-YH G-QZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: Z-JL L-JC X-JX K-WL Y-TZ. Wrote the paper: Z-JL K-WL X-JX L-JC Y-YZ. Discussed the findings and commented on the manuscript: Z-JL X-JX K-WL Y-YZ Y-TZ W-CT Y-YH G-QZ L-JC.