About the Authors

Ming-Xun Ren

Current address: Department of Biology, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Naples, Italy

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China

Zhao-Jun Bu

buzhaojun@nenu.edu.cn

Affiliation Institute for Peat and Mire Research, Northeast Normal University, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Vegetation Restoration, Changchun, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MXR ZJB. Performed the experiments: MXR ZJB. Analyzed the data: MXR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MXR. Wrote the paper: MXR.