About the Authors

Ngoc-Lan Nguyen

Contributed equally to this work with: Ngoc-Lan Nguyen, Yeon-Ju Kim

Affiliation Korean Ginseng Center and Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Yeon-Ju Kim

Contributed equally to this work with: Ngoc-Lan Nguyen, Yeon-Ju Kim

dcyang@khu.ac.kr (D-CY); yeonjukim@khu.ac.kr (Y-JK)

Affiliation Korean Ginseng Center and Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Van-An Hoang

Affiliation Korean Ginseng Center and Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Sathiyamoorthy Subramaniyam

Affiliation Korean Ginseng Center and Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Jong-Pyo Kang

Affiliation Korean Ginseng Center and Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Chang Ho Kang

Affiliation Plant Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Research Center, Gyeongsang National University, JinJu-si, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea

Deok-Chun Yang

dcyang@khu.ac.kr (D-CY); yeonjukim@khu.ac.kr (Y-JK)

Affiliations Korean Ginseng Center and Ginseng Genetic Resource Bank, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea, Graduation of Biotechnology, Kyung-Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YJK SS. Performed the experiments: NLN YJK. Analyzed the data: NLN YJK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NLN YJK VAH JPK CHK DCY SS. Wrote the paper: NLN YJK SS. Reanalyzed the raw data to response for the minor revision and gave the authors valuable comments: SS.