About the Authors

Qian Xu

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Xiao Xu

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Yang Shi

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Jichen Xu

jcxu282@sina.com (JX); huang@aesop.rutgers.edu (BH)

Affiliation National Engineering Laboratory for Tree Breeding, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

Bingru Huang

jcxu282@sina.com (JX); huang@aesop.rutgers.edu (BH)

Affiliation Dep. of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, the State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: QX JX BH. Performed the experiments: QX XX YS. Analyzed the data: QX BH JX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JX BH. Wrote the paper: QX BH JX.