About the Authors

Shouwu Tang

Contributed equally to this work with: Shouwu Tang, Yajie Xian

Roles Resources

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China, China Colored-cotton (Group) Co., Ltd., Urumqi, China

Yajie Xian

Contributed equally to this work with: Shouwu Tang, Yajie Xian

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Fei Wang

Roles Software

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Cheng Luo

Roles Resources

Affiliation China Colored-cotton (Group) Co., Ltd., Urumqi, China

Wu Song

Roles Validation

Affiliation China Colored-cotton (Group) Co., Ltd., Urumqi, China

Shuangquan Xie

Roles Validation

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Xifeng Chen

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Aiping Cao

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

lihb@shzu.edu.cn (HL); cncclhf@163.com (HL); caoaiping@shzu.edu.cn (AC)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Hongbin Li

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

lihb@shzu.edu.cn (HL); cncclhf@163.com (HL); caoaiping@shzu.edu.cn (AC)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Xinjiang Phytomedicine Resource and Utilization of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Haifeng Liu

Roles Funding acquisition, Resources

lihb@shzu.edu.cn (HL); cncclhf@163.com (HL); caoaiping@shzu.edu.cn (AC)

Affiliation China Colored-cotton (Group) Co., Ltd., Urumqi, China

Competing Interests

China Colored-cotton company and the funder only provided the support in the form of the research materials and salaries for authors [S.T., C.L., W.S., and H.L.], but did not play a role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.