About the Authors

Qunfeng Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qunfeng Zhang, Yuanzhi Shi

Affiliations Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China, Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China

Yuanzhi Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Qunfeng Zhang, Yuanzhi Shi

Affiliation Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China

Lifeng Ma

Affiliation Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China

Xiaoyun Yi

Affiliation Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China

Jianyun Ruan

jruan@mail.tricaas.com

Affiliation Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hangzhou 310058, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JYR. Performed the experiments: QFZ YZS. Analyzed the data: QFZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LFM XYY. Wrote the paper: QFZ JYR.