About the Authors

Peina Lu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations College of Agronomy, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China, Swift Current Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Canada

Tony Yang

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Swift Current Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Swift Current, Canada

Lijun Li

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China

Baoping Zhao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China

Jinghui Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

cauljh@aliyun.com

Affiliation College of Agronomy, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.