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The sequence data that support the findings of this study are openly available in GenBank of NCBI at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/, and the associated *SRA* numbers of the raw sequence data are from SRR8692323 to SRR8692337.
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The authors are grateful to Luxian Liu for helpful comments on the revision of the manuscript.
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This study was supported in part by grants from the Henan Science and Technology Research Project (202102310513) and the standardization construction of 2 kinds of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) decoction pieces such as honeysuckle (ZYBZH-Y-HEN-19).
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Wangjun Yuan, Yanxia He, and Qin Li conceived the research project. Suping Zhang, Zhiyin He, Sheqi He, and Lijun Liu were involved in the analysis of the data. Xin Sun cultivated the experimental materials. Lijun Liu drafted the paper, and Yanxia He revised it critically for intellectual content. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript. All authors agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
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Yuan, W.J., Zhang, S.P., He, Z.Y. et al. Comparative transcriptome analyses identify genes involved into the biosynthesis of forsythin and forsythoside A in Forsythia suspensa. Funct Integr Genomics 22, 731–741 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10142-022-00887-z
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