About the Authors

Hongjie Feng

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongjie Feng, Xinhui Tian

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-agriculture, Agriculture College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Xinhui Tian

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongjie Feng, Xinhui Tian

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-agriculture, Agriculture College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Yongchang Liu

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-agriculture, Agriculture College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Yanjun Li

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-agriculture, Agriculture College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Xinyu Zhang

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-agriculture, Agriculture College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Brian Joseph Jones

Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Yuqiang Sun

sunjiezh@yahoo.com.cn (JS); yqsun@hznu.edu.cn (YS)

Affiliation College of Life and Environmental Science, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Jie Sun

sunjiezh@yahoo.com.cn (JS); yqsun@hznu.edu.cn (YS)

Affiliation The Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-agriculture, Agriculture College of Shihezi University, Shihezi, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Revised the paper: YCL BJJ. Conceived and designed the experiments: JS YQS. Performed the experiments: XHT HJF. Analyzed the data: XHT HJF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JS YJL XYZ. Wrote the paper: HJF.