About the Authors

Chiming Gu

Affiliations Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences China, Wuhan, China, Graduate School, University of Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Biology and Genetic Improvement of Oil Crops, Ministry of Agriculture, Wuhan, China

Yi Liu

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

Ibrahim Mohamed

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

Runhua Zhang

Affiliation Institute of Vegetable, Wuhan Academy of Agricultural Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, China

Xiao Wang

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

Xinxin Nie

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

Min Jiang

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

Margot Brooks

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa

Fang Chen

fchen@ipni.ac.cn (FC); lzg250@126.com (ZL)

Affiliations Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences China, Wuhan, China, China Program of International Plant Nutrition Institute, Wuhan, China

Zhiguo Li

fchen@ipni.ac.cn (FC); lzg250@126.com (ZL)

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CMG ZGL FC YL. Data curation: MJ XW CMG. Formal analysis: MJ XW MB. Funding acquisition: FC ZGL. Investigation: MB FC ZGL CMG IM. Methodology: CMG FC ZGL. Project administration: CMG FC ZGL. Resources: FC ZGL YL. Software: ZGL IM XW. Supervision: CMG FC ZGL IM MB. Validation: YL RHZ XXN. Visualization: CMG FC ZGL IM. Writing – original draft: CMG FC ZGL IM. Writing – review & editing: CMG FC ZGL IM MB.