About the Authors

Guiling Sun

Contributed equally to this work with: Guiling Sun, Yanfang Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Yanfang Yang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guiling Sun, Yanfang Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, The Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Fuliang Xie

Affiliation Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

Jian-Fan Wen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Jianqiang Wu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

Iain W. Wilson

Affiliation CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Qi Tang

Affiliation Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plant, Nanning, Guangxi, China

Hongwei Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, The Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Deyou Qiu

qiudy@caf.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, The Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DYQ GLS. Performed the experiments: GLS YFY HWL. Analyzed the data: GLS YFY FLX IWW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFW JQW QT. Wrote the paper: GLS IWW DYQ.