About the Authors

Zhe Xu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China

Ming-Li Zhang

zhangml@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Biogeography and Bioresource in Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, China, State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China

James I. Cohen

Affiliation Applied Biology, Kettering University, 1700 University Ave., Flint, MI, 48504, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZX M-LZ JIC. Data curation: ZX M-LZ. Formal analysis: ZX M-LZ. Funding acquisition: M-LZ. Investigation: ZX M-LZ. Methodology: ZX M-LZ. Project administration: M-LZ. Resources: ZX M-LZ. Software: ZX M-LZ. Supervision: M-LZ. Validation: M-LZ JIC. Visualization: ZX M-LZ. Writing – original draft: ZX. Writing – review & editing: ZX M-LZ JIC.