About the Authors

Yi Xu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Fang-Yao Sun

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Chun Ji

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Quan-Wen Hu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Cheng-Yu Wang

Roles Resources

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China

De-Xiang Wu

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

genlou.sun@smu.ca (GS); dexiangwu198@163.com (DW)

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Genlou Sun

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

genlou.sun@smu.ca (GS); dexiangwu198@163.com (DW)

Affiliations College of Agronomy, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, Anhui, China, Biology Department, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Competing Interests

This manuscript or substantial parts of it, submitted to the journal has not be under consideration by any other journal. No material submitted as part of a manuscript infringes existing copyrights, or the rights of a third party. All authors have approved the manuscript. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.