About the Authors

Fangqun OuYang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy Forestry, Beijing, 100091, PR China, National Engineering laboratory for Forest Tree Breeding, Key Laboratory for Genetics and Breeding of Forest Trees and Ornamental Plant of Ministry of Education, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, PR China

Jian-Feng Mao

Affiliation National Engineering laboratory for Forest Tree Breeding, Key Laboratory for Genetics and Breeding of Forest Trees and Ornamental Plant of Ministry of Education, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, PR China

Junhui Wang

wangjh808@sina.com (JW); liyue@bjfu.edu.cn (YL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy Forestry, Beijing, 100091, PR China

Shougong Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Research Institute of Forestry, Chinese Academy Forestry, Beijing, 100091, PR China

Yue Li

wangjh808@sina.com (JW); liyue@bjfu.edu.cn (YL)

Affiliation National Engineering laboratory for Forest Tree Breeding, Key Laboratory for Genetics and Breeding of Forest Trees and Ornamental Plant of Ministry of Education, College of Biological Science and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, PR China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JW SZ. Performed the experiments: FOY JFM. Analyzed the data: FOY JFM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW SZ YL. Wrote the paper: FOY JW YL. Plotted the results: FOY.