About the Authors

Meizhen Liu

liumzh@ibcas.ac.cn (MZL) (ML); jianggm@126.com (GMJ) (GJ)

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environment Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Bingxue Wang

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environment Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Colin P. Osborne

Affiliation Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Gaoming Jiang

liumzh@ibcas.ac.cn (MZL) (ML); jianggm@126.com (GMJ) (GJ)

Affiliation The State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environment Change, Institute of Botany, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Interpreted the data: MZL GMJ CPO BXW. Drafted the article: MZL. Revised the manuscript critically: CPO. Conceived and designed the experiments: GMJ. Performed the experiments: BXW. Analyzed the data: MZL BXW.