Tissue culture-free transformation of traditional Chinese medicinal plants with root suckering capability

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Shandong Shunfeng Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Jinan, China, project of Sanya Yazhou Bay Science and Technology City (Grant No. SCKJ-JYRC-2023-72) and Hainan Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory (Grant No. B22C10305).

2 Author contributions

J.L., J.-K.Z. designed and supervised the research. J.L., S.L., C.S., S.D., and H.T. carried out the experiments. J.L., M.W., Z.W., Z.L., and J.-K.Z. discussed the data. J.L., G.L. Z.L., and J.-K.Z. wrote the paper.

Data availability

All the data supporting the findings of this study are available in the paper, and the plasmid is available upon request.

Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

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