About the Authors

Di Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei, China, Biosystems Engineering Department, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

Ruiqi Li

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei, China

William D. Batchelor

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

liym315@126.com (YL); wdb0007@auburn.edu (WDB)

Affiliation Biosystems Engineering Department, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America

Hui Ju

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Visualization

Affiliations Biosystems Engineering Department, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing, China

Yanming Li

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

liym315@126.com (YL); wdb0007@auburn.edu (WDB)

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, Hebei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.