About the Authors

Linhai Zhu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Xuechun Zhao

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Liming Lai

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Jianjian Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Lianhe Jiang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Jinzhi Ding

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Nanxi Liu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Yunjiang Yu

Affiliation Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Junsheng Li

Affiliation Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Nengwen Xiao

Affiliation Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Yuanrun Zheng

zhengyr@ibcas.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Resource Plants, Beijing Botanical Garden, West China Subalpine Botanical Garden, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing, China

Glyn M. Rimmington

Affiliation Global Learning College of Engineering, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LZ YZ LJ JD JL NX YY. Performed the experiments: LZ XZ LL JW JD NL. Analyzed the data: LZ YZ XZ LL JW. Wrote the paper: LZ YZ LJ GR XZ LL JW.