About the Authors

Sheng Tong

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng Tong, Maolian Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Maolian Li

Contributed equally to this work with: Sheng Tong, Maolian Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Nemat O. Keyhani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Cell Science, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Yu Liu

Roles Investigation

Affiliation College of Biotechnology, Southwest University, Chongqing, P. R. China

Min Yuan

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Dongmei Lin

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Dan Jin

Roles Resources

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Xianbi Li

Roles Resources

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Yan Pei

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Yanhua Fan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

fyh@swu.edu.cn

Affiliations Biotechnology Research Center, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China, Chongqing Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Germplasm Innovation, Southwest University, Chongqing, P.R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.