About the Authors
- Sarah Weeda
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Affiliation Agriculture Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Na Zhang
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Affiliation College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China
- Xiaolei Zhao
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Affiliation Tianjin Crop Science Institute, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Science, Tianjin, P. R. China
- Grace Ndip
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Affiliation Department of Chemistry, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
- Yangdong Guo
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* E-mail: yaguo@cau.edu.cn (YG); sren@vsu.edu (SR)
Affiliation College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, P. R. China
- Gregory A. Buck
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Affiliation Center of the Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Conggui Fu
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Affiliation Tianjin Crop Science Institute, Tianjin Academy of Agricultural Science, Tianjin, P. R. China
- Shuxin Ren
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* E-mail: yaguo@cau.edu.cn (YG); sren@vsu.edu (SR)
Affiliation Agriculture Research Station, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: SR SW YG. Performed the experiments: SR SW GB. Analyzed the data: NZ SW XZ SR GN CF. Wrote the paper: SR SW.