About the Authors

Lin Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Li, De-Ping Ye, Miao Niu

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

De-Ping Ye

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Li, De-Ping Ye, Miao Niu

Affiliation Forest Bureau of Pu’er, Yunnan, P. R. China

Miao Niu

Contributed equally to this work with: Lin Li, De-Ping Ye, Miao Niu

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China

Hai-Fei Yan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Tie-Long Wen

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Shi-Jin Li

lisj@scib.ac.cn

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resources Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL SJL. Performed the experiments: HFY MN. Analyzed the data: LL MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DPY MN TLW. Wrote the paper: LL MN. Revised the draft: MN SJL.