About the Authors

Renmin Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

David G. Rossiter

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China, Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, United States of America

Feng Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China

Yuanyuan Lu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Fan Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Fei Yang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Yuguo Zhao

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China

Decheng Li

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China

Ganlin Zhang

glzhang@issas.ac.cn

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RY GZ. Performed the experiments: RY FL YL YZ. Analyzed the data: YL Fan Y. DL Fei Y.. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FL Fan Y. Fei Y.. Wrote the paper: RY DR GZ.