About the Authors

Xu Han

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Zhihui Cheng

chengzh@nwsuaf.edu.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Huanwen Meng

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Horticulture, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: XH ZC. Performed the experiments: XH. Analyzed the data: XH HM. Wrote the paper: XH.