About the Authors

Xiaoru Zhang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Juane Dong

dzsys@nwsuaf.edu.cn (JD); liangzs@iswc.ms.ac.cn (ZL)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Hailong Liu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Jiao Wang

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Yuexin Qi

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, Yangling, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China

Zongsuo Liang

dzsys@nwsuaf.edu.cn (JD); liangzs@iswc.ms.ac.cn (ZL)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JD ZL. Performed the experiments: XZ HL JW. Analyzed the data: XZ YQ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JW HL. Wrote the paper: XZ HL.