About the Authors

Zhong-Jian Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhong-Jian Liu, Li-Jun Chen, Ke-Wei Liu

liuzj@sinicaorchid.org (ZJL); huanglq@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (LQH)

Affiliations Shenzhen Key Laboratory for Orchid Conservation and Utilization, The National Orchid Conservation Center of China and 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

Li-Jun Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhong-Jian Liu, Li-Jun Chen, Ke-Wei Liu

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

Ke-Wei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhong-Jian Liu, Li-Jun Chen, Ke-Wei Liu

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

Li-Qiang Li

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

Wen-Hui Rao

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

Guang-Da Tang

Affiliation College of Forestry, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

Lai-Qiang Huang

liuzj@sinicaorchid.org (ZJL); huanglq@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn (LQH)

Affiliations 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

Discussed the results and commented on the manuscript: ZJL LJC KWL LQL WHR YTZ GDT LQH. Conceived and designed the experiments: ZJL LJC KWL LQH. Performed the experiments: ZJL LJC KWL LQL WHR YTZ GDT LQH. Analyzed the data: ZJL LJC KWL WHR YTZ GDT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZJL YTZ GDT. Wrote the paper: ZJL LJC KWL LQH.