About the Authors

Shipeng Fan

Contributed equally to this work with: Shipeng Fan, Liyun Miao

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, Key Laboratory of State Ethnic Affairs Commission for Biological Technology, Center for the Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Liyun Miao

Contributed equally to this work with: Shipeng Fan, Liyun Miao

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinzhong, China

Haodong Li

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, Key Laboratory of State Ethnic Affairs Commission for Biological Technology, Center for the Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Aihua Lin

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, Key Laboratory of State Ethnic Affairs Commission for Biological Technology, Center for the Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Fajun Song

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, Key Laboratory of State Ethnic Affairs Commission for Biological Technology, Center for the Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Peng Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

zhangpenghust@126.com

Affiliation Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Protection and Application of Special Plants in Wuling Area of China, Key Laboratory of State Ethnic Affairs Commission for Biological Technology, Center for the Conservation and Utilization of Medicinal Plant Resources, College of Life Science, South-Central University for Nationalities, Wuhan, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.