About the Authors

Chuanyu Yang

Affiliations College of Crop Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China, Indian River Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, Fort Pierce, FL, United States of America

Charles A. Powell

Affiliation Indian River Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, Fort Pierce, FL, United States of America

Yongping Duan

Affiliation Horticultural Research Lab, USDA-ARS, Fort Pierce, FL, United States of America

Robert Shatters

Affiliation Horticultural Research Lab, USDA-ARS, Fort Pierce, FL, United States of America

Muqing Zhang

mqzhang@ufl.edu

Affiliations College of Crop Science, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China, Indian River Research and Education Center, IFAS, University of Florida, Fort Pierce, FL, United States of America, State Key Lab for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agri-biological Resources, Guangxi University, Nanning, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CP YD RS MZ. Performed the experiments: CY MZ. Analyzed the data: MZ CY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CP YD MZ. Wrote the paper: CY MZ CP YD RS.