About the Authors

Guo-Jin Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-Jin Zhang, Hai-Hua Hu, Cai-Fei Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

Hai-Hua Hu

Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-Jin Zhang, Hai-Hua Hu, Cai-Fei Zhang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

Cai-Fei Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Guo-Jin Zhang, Hai-Hua Hu, Cai-Fei Zhang

Current Address: School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200438, China

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100039, China

Xiao-Juan Tian

Affiliation Tianmenshan National Forest Park, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, 427300, China

Hui Peng

Affiliation Tianmenshan National Forest Park, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, 427300, China

Tian-Gang Gao

Gaotg@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TGG. Performed the experiments: GJZ CFZ HHH. Analyzed the data: TGG GJZ HHH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CFZ XJT HP. Wrote the paper: TGG GJZ HHH.