About the Authors

Guan-Zheng Qu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Tangchun Zheng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Guifeng Liu

yangchuanpingnefu@yahoo.com (CY); liuguifeng@126.com (GL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Wenjie Wang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Forest Plant Ecology, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Lina Zang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Huanzhen Liu

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Chuanping Yang

yangchuanpingnefu@yahoo.com (CY); liuguifeng@126.com (GL)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest Tree Genetics and Breeding, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GZQ GL CY. Performed the experiments: TZ WW LZ HL. Analyzed the data: TZ WW LZ HL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TZ WW LZ HL. Wrote the paper: GZQ.