“…In recent years, integration of metabolomics and transcriptomics has been developed to explore the biosynthesis pathway of the active ingredients, such as artemisinin, tanshinone, and salidroside in medicinal plants ( Gao et al, 2014 ; Ma et al, 2015 ; Wei et al, 2016 ; Torrens-Spence et al, 2018 ). Over the recent years, dried fruit has been used for the metabolic profiling of A. villosum ( Deng et al, 2005 ; Kang et al, 2013 ; Xue et al, 2015 ; Zhang et al, 2017 ). Little is known about the metabolic profiling of fresh tissues (e.g., roots, stems, leaves, seeds, and pericarp) of A. villosum growing in its native habitat, Yangchun.…”