About the Authors

Zengqiang Li

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

Bingzi Zhao

bzhao@issas.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Qingyun Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Xiaoyan Cao

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jiabao Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BZ. Performed the experiments: ZL. Analyzed the data: ZL BZ QW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: QW JZ. Wrote the paper: ZL BZ QW XC JZ.