About the Authors

Meixuan Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Meixuan Li, Xiaohan Gai

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Xiaohan Gai

Contributed equally to this work with: Meixuan Li, Xiaohan Gai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Qian Bai

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Fanru Xu

Roles Validation

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Shipu Cheng

Roles Project administration

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Fuhong Miao

Roles Supervision

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Qingwei Liang

Roles Resources

Affiliation Chifeng Institute of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Science, Chifeng, China

Juan Sun

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Yufang Xu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

xuyufang@qau.edu.cn

Affiliations College of Grassland Science, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Shandong Key Laboratory for Germplasm Innovation of Saline-alkaline Tolerant Grasses and Trees, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China, Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration on Grassland Resources and Ecology in the Yellow River Delta, Qingdao Agricultural University, Qingdao, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.