Current status and prospects of traditional Chinese medicine resource ex-situ conservation.

Ling QUE; Guang YANG; Jian-Hua MIAO; Hai-Yang WANG; Min CHEN; Chun-Xin ZANG

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Current status and prospects of traditional Chinese medicine resource ex-situ conservation.

Author: Ling QUE ¹ ; Guang YANG ¹ ; Jian-Hua MIAO ² ; Hai-Yang WANG ¹ ; Min CHEN ¹ ; Chun-Xin ZANG ³
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1. State Key Laboratory of Dao-di Herbs, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
2. Guangxi Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants, Guangxi Key Laboratory of Medicinal Resources Protection and Genetic Improvement, Nanning 530023, China.
3. Biodiversity Research Center, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: ex-situ conservation; herbal seed and seedlings of traditional Chinese medicine; pharmacokinetics; traditional Chinese medicine resources; varieties breeding
From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2016;41(20):3703-3708
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Protection of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) resources is the foundation of sustainable development of TCM industry, which includes the in-situ and ex-situ conservation. The development of TCM resource ex-situ conservation was reviewed, and hotpots in the conservation and its development practices were analyzed. Therefore national TCM resource ex-situ conservation systems were proposed, including the establishment of TCM resources introduction gardens, TCM resource in vitro conservation library and TCM resource bio-information sharing platform, rational distribution of TCM resources ex-situ conservation agencies, along with the advancement of TCM varieties breeding, and the perfection of Chinese herbal medicines seed and seedlings market, which are of significant importance on the guidance of TCM resource ex-situ conservation development.