About the Authors

Pei-Liang Liu

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Jun Wen

czybbg@nwsuaf.edu.cn (ZYC); wenj@si.edu (JW)

Affiliation Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., United States of America

Lei Duan

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

Emine Arslan

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey

Kuddisi Ertuğrul

Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey

Zhao-Yang Chang

czybbg@nwsuaf.edu.cn (ZYC); wenj@si.edu (JW)

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ZYC. Data curation: PLL LD. Formal analysis: PLL EA KE. Funding acquisition: ZYC PLL. Investigation: PLL LD. Methodology: JW. Project administration: ZYC JW. Resources: JW ZYC. Visualization: PLL. Writing – original draft: PLL. Writing – review & editing: JW LD ZYC EA KE.