Lixin Yang,¹ John Richard Stepp,^2,* Selena Ahmed,³ Shengji Pei,¹ Dayuan Xue<sup>4

1</sup>1Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy o
²2Department of Anthropology, Ethnobiology Laboratory, University of Florida, PO Box 117305, Gainesvi
³3Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
⁴4School of Life and Environmental Science, Minzu University, 27 Zhong-Guan-Cun South Avenue, Beijing

^**Corresponding author: stepp@ufl.edu