Acknowledgement
This research was performed by the Collaborative Innovation Center of Vegetable Industry in Hebei, which was financially supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 31872132), The Key Research Projects of Hebei (No. 21626901D), Hebei Facility Vegetables Innovation Team of Modern Agro-industry Technology (No. HBCT2021030213).
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