About the Authors

Jiancai Wang

Affiliations School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Ronghua Xu

ronghua.xu08@gmail.com (RX); aizhongliu@xtbg.ac.cn (AL)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Aizhong Liu

ronghua.xu08@gmail.com (RX); aizhongliu@xtbg.ac.cn (AL)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Plant Resources and Sustainable Use, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, People's Republic of China, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Kunming, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RX AL. Performed the experiments: JW RX. Analyzed the data: JW RX. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW RX. Wrote the paper: RX AL.