About the Authors

Xiuqing Nie

Affiliations Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, Xining, 810008, China, Key Laboratory of Tibetan Medicine Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Xining 810008, China, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100049, China

Yuanhe Yang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

Lucun Yang

Affiliations Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, Xining, 810008, China, Key Laboratory of Tibetan Medicine Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Xining 810008, China

Guoying Zhou

zhougy@nwipb.cas.cn

Affiliations Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Science, Xining, 810008, China, Key Laboratory of Tibetan Medicine Research, Chinese Academy of Science, Xining 810008, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GYZ LCY. Performed the experiments: GYZ LCY. Analyzed the data: XQN YHY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GYZ LCY XQN YHY. Wrote the paper: XQN YHY.