About the Authors

Li-hua Tu

Affiliation College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Ting-xing Hu

hutx001@163.com

Affiliation College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Jian Zhang

Affiliations College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China, Institute of Ecological Forestry, College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, China

Li-hua Huang

Affiliation College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Yin-long Xiao

Affiliation College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Gang Chen

Affiliation College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Hong-ling Hu

Affiliation College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Li Liu

Affiliations Maize Research Institute, Sichuan Agricultural University Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, China, Personnel Department, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Jiang-kun Zheng

Affiliation College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University, Ya'an, Sichuan, China

Zhen-feng Xu

Affiliation Institute of Ecological Forestry, College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, China

Liang-hua Chen

Affiliation Institute of Ecological Forestry, College of Forestry, Sichuan Agricultural University Chengdu Campus, Chengdu, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LHT TXH JZ. Performed the experiments: LHH LHT YLX GC HLH LL ZFX. Analyzed the data: LHT JKZ ZFX LHC LL. Wrote the paper: LHT TXH JZ LL ZFX.