About the Authors

Liu He

Contributed equally to this work with: Liu He, Xiaolan Xu

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Xiaolan Xu

Contributed equally to this work with: Liu He, Xiaolan Xu

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Ying Li

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Chunfang Li

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yingjie Zhu

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Haixia Yan

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Zhiying Sun

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Chao Sun

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Jingyuan Song

Affiliation Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China

Yu’an Bi

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process; Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. LTD, Lianyungang, China

Juan Shen

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process; Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. LTD, Lianyungang, China

Ruiyang Cheng

Affiliation Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China

Zhenzhong Wang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process; Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. LTD, Lianyungang, China

Wei Xiao

wzhzh-nj@tom.com (WX); slchen@implad.ac.cn (SC)

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of New-tech for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process; Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. LTD, Lianyungang, China

Shilin Chen

wzhzh-nj@tom.com (WX); slchen@implad.ac.cn (SC)

Affiliations Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

Four authors (YB, J. Shen, ZW and WX) are employed in Jiangsu Kanion Pharmaceutical Co. LTD. All the authors are cooperation partners in this study about transcriptome analysis of L. japonica. There are no competing interests in employment, consultancy, patents, products in development or marketed products etc. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SC WX J. Song CS ZW. Performed the experiments: LH XX CL. Analyzed the data: YL YZ RC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LH HY ZS YB J. Shen. Wrote the paper: LH XX.