About the Authors

Qionglin Huang

Contributed equally to this work with: Qionglin Huang, Zhonggang Duan

Affiliations Research Center of Chinese Medicinal Resource Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resource from Lingnan, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Zhonggang Duan

Contributed equally to this work with: Qionglin Huang, Zhonggang Duan

Affiliation Life Science Department, Huizhou University, Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China

Jinfen Yang

Affiliations Research Center of Chinese Medicinal Resource Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resource from Lingnan, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Xinye Ma

Affiliations Research Center of Chinese Medicinal Resource Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resource from Lingnan, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Ruoting Zhan

Affiliations Research Center of Chinese Medicinal Resource Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resource from Lingnan, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Hui Xu

Affiliations Research Center of Chinese Medicinal Resource Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resource from Lingnan, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Weiwen Chen

gdmchql2013@163.com

Affiliations Research Center of Chinese Medicinal Resource Science and Engineering, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China, Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicinal Resource from Lingnan, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WC HX. Performed the experiments: QH. Analyzed the data: QH ZD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JY XM RZ. Wrote the paper: QH ZD.