About the Authors

Jǖgang Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Jǖgang Wang, Rong Zheng

Affiliation College of Forestry, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Rong Zheng

Contributed equally to this work with: Jǖgang Wang, Rong Zheng

Affiliations College of Forestry, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China, College of Life Science and Technology, Inner Mongolia Normal University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Shulan Bai

baishulan2004@163.com

Affiliation College of Forestry, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Xiaomin Gao

Affiliation College of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Min Liu

Affiliation College of Forestry, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China

Wei Yan

Affiliation Institute of Forestry Science of Ordos, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB JW. Performed the experiments: JW RZ XG ML. Analyzed the data: JW RZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WY. Wrote the paper: JW RZ.