About the Authors

Feifei Zhu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, United Graduate School of Agriculture Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Muneoki Yoh

Affiliation Institute of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Frank S. Gilliam

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

Xiankai Lu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Jiangming Mo

mojm@scib.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMM FFZ MY. Performed the experiments: FFZ. Analyzed the data: FFZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FFZ XKL MY FSG. Wrote the paper: FFZ.