About the Authors

Yanlan Tao

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanlan Tao, Lichao Huang, Hongyu Chen

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliations College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China, Ancient Tea Tree Research Centre, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China

Lichao Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanlan Tao, Lichao Huang, Hongyu Chen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China

Hongyu Chen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yanlan Tao, Lichao Huang, Hongyu Chen

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Ancient Tea Tree Research Centre, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China

Yiju Luo

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Ancient Tea Tree Research Centre, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China

Rong Tang

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Ancient Tea Tree Research Centre, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China

Faying Li

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

lifaying@swfu.edu.cn (FL); lanzengquan@tsinghua.org.cn (ZL)

Affiliations College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China, Ancient Tea Tree Research Centre, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China

Zengquan Lan

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

lifaying@swfu.edu.cn (FL); lanzengquan@tsinghua.org.cn (ZL)

Affiliations College of Forestry, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China, Ancient Tea Tree Research Centre, Southwest Forestry University, Yunnan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.