Wang, Jing-Wen
Xu, Tong-Lei
Sereke, Ghenet Weldegebriel
Wang, Rong
Li, Yuan-Yuan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4711-4294
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Key Research and Development Program (2016YFC0503102)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31670540)
Article History
Received: 16 November 2019
Accepted: 31 January 2020
First Online: 8 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: This research involved endangered plants; studies were supported by the projects of Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China and National Natural Science Foundation of China. Our sampling was permitted by Lichuan <i>Metasequoia</i> Management Office and Xingdoushan National Nature Reserve of China, and was in accordance with the ethical standards of the Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on Wild Plants Protection (2017 Amendment PKULAW Version) (CLI.2.304108). During sampling, we only collected leaf tissues from each sampled individual and did not cause severe damage to wild populations of <i>Metasequoia glyptostroboides</i>.