Acknowledgments
We thank the State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany,
Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China), for
providing laboratory facilities. This work was supported by the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (32130008) and Ministry of
Science and Technology (2021YFD1200101-02) awarded to G.S., National
Research Council, Sri Lanka (NRC 15–108) awarded to D.R., National
Science Foundation, Sri Lanka (OSTP/2016/53) awarded to A.T. and
(OSTP/2016/54) awarded to S.S., and the MUM-ASEAN Sustainable
Development Research Grant (ASEAN-2019-01-SCI) awarded to B.K. We thank
Zhe Cai, Mu-Fan Geng, Qing-Lin Meng, Gayani Galhena and M. D. Nirmani
for their technical assistances and helpful comments on the manuscript.