About the Authors

GangQiang Li

Contributed equally to this work with: GangQiang Li, Kevin Yueju Wang

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Kevin Yueju Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: GangQiang Li, Kevin Yueju Wang

Affiliation Department of Natural Sciences, Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States of America

DaHui Li

Affiliation Pharmaceutical School, Peking University, Beijing, China

Nan Wang

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

DeHu Liu

liudehu2006@126.com

Affiliation Biotechnology Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: D. Liu. Performed the experiments: GL D. Li NW. Analyzed the data: GL D. Li NW KW D. Liu. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GL D. Li NW. Wrote the paper: KW D. Liu.