About the Authors

Lijun Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Wang, Yuanzhong Jiang, Li Yuan

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Eco-environments of Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, Institute of Resources Botany, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Yuanzhong Jiang

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Wang, Yuanzhong Jiang, Li Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Eco-environments of Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, Institute of Resources Botany, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Li Yuan

Contributed equally to this work with: Lijun Wang, Yuanzhong Jiang, Li Yuan

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Eco-environments of Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, Institute of Resources Botany, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Wanxiang Lu

Affiliations College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Li Yang

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Eco-environments of Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, Institute of Resources Botany, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Abdul Karim

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Eco-environments of Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, Institute of Resources Botany, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China

Keming Luo

kemingl@swu.edu.cn

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Eco-environments of Three Gorges Reservoir Region, Ministry of Education, Institute of Resources Botany, School of Life Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, Chongqing, China, Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KL. Performed the experiments: LW YJ L. Yuan. Analyzed the data: WL KL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LW L. Yang. Wrote the paper: KL AK.