About the Authors

Xia Yan

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Yan, Xicun Dong

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Inland River Ecohydrology, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P. R. China, Key Laboratory of Stress Physiology and Ecology in Cold and Arid Regions of Gansu Province, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Xicun Dong

Contributed equally to this work with: Xia Yan, Xicun Dong

Affiliation Department of Radiobiology, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Wen Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Stress Physiology and Ecology in Cold and Arid Regions of Gansu Province, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Hengxia Yin

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Stress Physiology and Ecology in Cold and Arid Regions of Gansu Province, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Honglang Xiao

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Inland River Ecohydrology, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Peng Chen

Affiliation Faculty of Plant Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, P. R. China

Xiao-Fei Ma

maxiaofei@lzb.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Stress Physiology and Ecology in Cold and Arid Regions of Gansu Province, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XY XD X-FM. Performed the experiments: XY WZ HY. Analyzed the data: XY PC X-FM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HX X-FM. Wrote the paper: XY XD X-FM.