About the Authors

Enke Liu

Affiliations Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Dryland Farming g Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA), Beijing, China

Changrong Yan

yancr@ieda.org.cn (CY); zhangyq@ieda.org.cn (YZ)

Affiliations Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Dryland Farming g Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA), Beijing, China

Xurong Mei

Affiliations Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Dryland Farming g Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA), Beijing, China

Yanqing Zhang

yancr@ieda.org.cn (CY); zhangyq@ieda.org.cn (YZ)

Affiliations Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, Key Laboratory of Dryland Farming g Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA), Beijing, China

Tinglu Fan

Affiliation Dryland Agricultural Institute, Gansu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EKL CRY YQZ. Performed the experiments: EKL TLF. Analyzed the data: EKL CRY XRM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EKL TLF YQZ. Wrote the paper: EKL CRY XRM.