About the Authors

Jun–hui Yuan

Affiliations Landscape Architecture College of Beijing Forestry University, Haidian District, Beijing, China, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haidian District, Beijing, China, Gansu Forestry Technological College, Tianshui, Gansu, China

Fang–Yun Cheng

slzhou@ibcas.ac.cn (SZ); chengfy8@263.net (FC)

Affiliations Landscape Architecture College of Beijing Forestry University, Haidian District, Beijing, China, National Flower Engineering Research Center, Key Laboratory for the Genetic and Breeding of Forestry Trees and Ornamental Plants, Beijing, China

Shi–Liang Zhou

slzhou@ibcas.ac.cn (SZ); chengfy8@263.net (FC)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JY FC SZ. Performed the experiments: JY. Analyzed the data: JY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY FC. Wrote the paper: JY FC.