About the Authors
- Lulu Yang
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Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P.R. China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
- Jianjun Chen
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P.R. China
- Weiming Hu
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Affiliations Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P.R. China, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
- Tianshun Yang
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P.R. China
- Yanjun Zhang
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Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, P.R. China
- Tamura Yukiyoshi
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Affiliation Maruzen Pharmaceuticals Co., LTD, Tokyo, Japan
- Yanyang Zhou
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Affiliation Maruzen Pharmaceuticals Co., LTD, Tokyo, Japan
- Ying Wang
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* E-mail: yingwang@scib.ac.cn
Affiliation Key Laboratory of South China Agricultural Plant Molecular Analysis and Genetic Improvement, Provincial Key Laboratory of Applied Botany, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, P.R. China
Competing Interests
This research was partially supported by the Licorice International Cooperation Project with Maruzen Pharmaceuticals Co., LTD. (Y051011001). Tamura Yukiyoshi and Yanyang Zhou are employed by Maruzen Pharmaceuticals Co., LTD. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: YW LLY TY. Data curation: LLY. Formal analysis: LLY YYZ. Funding acquisition: YW. Investigation: LLY TSY WMH. Methodology: LLY JJC. Project administration: YW. Resources: TSY WMH. Software: LLY. Supervision: YW. Validation: LLY. Visualization: YW LLY. Writing – original draft: LLY. Writing – review & editing: YW YJZ TY.