About the Authors

Jianguo Man

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, 271018, P.R. China

Yu Shi

shiyu@sdau.edu.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, 271018, P.R. China

Zhenwen Yu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, 271018, P.R. China

Yongli Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Crop Ecophysiology and Farming System, Ministry of Agriculture, College of Agronomy, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, Shandong, 271018, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM YS ZY YZ. Performed the experiments: JM YS ZY YZ. Analyzed the data: JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JM YS. Wrote the paper: JM YS.