About the Authors

Yan-xia Sun

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Michael J. Moore

Affiliation Department of Biology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

Ai-ping Meng

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Pamela S. Soltis

Affiliation Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Douglas E. Soltis

Affiliations Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Jian-qiang Li

lijq@wbgcas.cn (JQL); hcwang@wbgcas.cn (HCW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Heng-chang Wang

lijq@wbgcas.cn (JQL); hcwang@wbgcas.cn (HCW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JQL HCW. Performed the experiments: YXS MJM APM. Analyzed the data: YXS MJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YXS MJM JQL HCW. Wrote the paper: YXS MJM PSS DES HCW.