About the Authors

Mingying Liu

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, People’s Republic of China

Guirong Qiao

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, People’s Republic of China

Jing Jiang

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, People’s Republic of China

Huiqin Yang

Affiliations Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, People’s Republic of China, College of Life Science and Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, People’s Republic of China

Lihua Xie

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, People’s Republic of China

Jinzhong Xie

Affiliation Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, People’s Republic of China

Renying Zhuo

zhuory@gmail.com

Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Tree Genetics and Breeding, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, People’s Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ML RZ. Performed the experiments: ML GQ JJ. Analyzed the data: ML HY. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RZ LX JX. Wrote the paper: ML.