About the Authors

Ying-Ning Zou

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China

Qiang-Sheng Wu

wuqiangsh@163.com (QSW); xinhua.he@uwa.edu.au (XHH)

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China

Yong-Ming Huang

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China

Qiu-Dan Ni

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Gardening, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China

Xin-Hua He

wuqiangsh@163.com (QSW); xinhua.he@uwa.edu.au (XHH)

Affiliations NSW Department of Primary Industries, West Pennant Hills, New South Wales, Australia, School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YNZ QSW. Performed the experiments: YMH QDN. Analyzed the data: YNZ YMH XHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QSW. Wrote the paper: YNZ XHH QSW.