About the Authors

Guimei Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guimei Jiang, Xinqiang Jiang

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Xinqiang Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guimei Jiang, Xinqiang Jiang

Affiliation College of Landscape Architecture and Forestry, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, PR China

Peitao Lü

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Jitao Liu

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Junping Gao

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Changqing Zhang

chqzhang@cau.edu.cn

Affiliation Department of Ornamental Horticulture, College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CZ JG XJ. Performed the experiments: GJ XJ PL JL. Analyzed the data: CZ XJ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CZ GJ. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CZ XJ.