About the Authors

Dongyan Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongyan Zhang, Xingen Zhou, Jian Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Big Data, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Xingen Zhou

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongyan Zhang, Xingen Zhou, Jian Zhang

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Texas A&M University System, Beaumont, Texas, United States of America

Jian Zhang

Contributed equally to this work with: Dongyan Zhang, Xingen Zhou, Jian Zhang

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation College of Resources and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Yubin Lan

Roles Methodology

Affiliations Texas A&M AgriLife Research Center, Texas A&M University System, Beaumont, Texas, United States of America, College of Engineering, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Chao Xu

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Big Data, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Dong Liang

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

dliang@ahu.edu.cn

Affiliation Anhui Engineering Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Big Data, Anhui University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.