Ion beam biotechnology and its application to medicinal plant breeding
- VernacularTitle:离子束生物技术及其在药用植物育种中的应用
- Author:
Hao CHEN
;
Yunzhang LIANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
ion beam biotechnology;
medicinal plants;
breeding
- From:
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs
1994;0(05):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Ion beam implantation technique has been applied to many research fields, such as organism improvement, life origin and evolution, and radiobiological effect of the environment, since the mutagenic effects of ion beam had been discovered at the mid of 1980′s. Especially ion beam biotechnology has obtained outstanding result in introducing plant breeding and creating new germplasm resources. Medicinal plant is one of basic materials of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, which has direct relationship with the quality and curative effects of medicines. Therefore, their genetic breeding plays a very important role in the improvement of the yield and quality of traditional Chinese medicinal materials. In this paper, ion beam biotechnology, its obtained results, and present status of research on medicinal plants are expounded. Moreover, the prospects of its application to the medicinal plant breeding are pointed out.
