LGD: a comprehensive online database of Liliales based on multi-omics data

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32472784 and 32502749), the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (GZC20240710), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2024 M761451), the Jiangsu Funding Program for Excellent Postdoctoral Talent (2024ZB685), the Jiangsu Provincial Young Science and Technology Talent Support Program (awarded to Sujuan Xu), and the ‘Blue Project’ of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions.

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Acknowledgements

Nianjun Teng and Aiping Song conceived and designed the study. Data collection and bioinformatics analysis were performed by Sujuan Xu, Tian Zhang, and Hanhan Feng under the supervision of Nianjun Teng. Database construction was led by Sujuan Xu. Ze Wu helped collect data and information for the database. The manuscript was organized, written, and revised by Sujuan Xu and Nianjun Teng. All authors approved the final manuscript.

Data availability

All the data hosted in the LGD are freely available at https://lgd.njau.edu.cn/lily/.

Conflicts of interest statement

The authors declare no competing interests.

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