About the Authors

Guohua Yang

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Peng Gao

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Hua Zhang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Center for Signal Transduction and Metabolomics, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Shanjin Huang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Environmental Molecular Physiology, Center for Signal Transduction and Metabolomics, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Zhi-Liang Zheng

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: zhiliang.zheng@lehman.cuny.edu

Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Plant Sciences PhD Subprogram, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ZZ GY SH. Performed the experiments: PG GY HZ SH. Analyzed the data: ZZ GY SH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ZZ PG GY. Wrote the paper: ZZ GY SH.