About the Authors

Wen-Cai Wang

Affiliation School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, United Kingdom

Si-Yun Chen

Affiliation Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China

Xian-Zhi Zhang

zhangxianzhi@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: W-CW X-ZZ. Formal analysis: W-CW S-YC X-ZZ. Funding acquisition: X-ZZ. Investigation: W-CW. Project administration: X-ZZ. Resources: S-YC X-ZZ. Software: S-YC. Supervision: X-ZZ. Writing – original draft: W-CW X-ZZ. Writing – review & editing: W-CW X-ZZ.