About the Authors

Zhenhua Peng

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenhua Peng, Chunling Zhang

Affiliation International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Chunling Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhenhua Peng, Chunling Zhang

Affiliation International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Ying Zhang

Affiliation International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Tao Hu

Affiliation International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Shaohua Mu

Affiliation International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Xueping Li

Affiliation International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Jian Gao

gaojian@icbr.ac.cn

Affiliation International Center for Bamboo and Rattan, Key Laboratory of Bamboo and Rattan Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZP CZ JG. Performed the experiments: CZ YZ TH. Analyzed the data: ZP CZ YZ SM XL JG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TH SM XL. Wrote the paper: CZ. Read and approved the final manuscript: ZP JG TH SM XL.