Application of bioengineering technology to protection of endangered medicinal plant resources
- VernacularTitle:生物工程技术与药用植物资源保护
- Author:
Wenyuan GAO
;
Peigen XIAO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
medicinal plant;
endangered resources;
bioengineering;
micropropagation;
tissue culture
- From:
Chinese Traditional and Herbal Drugs
1994;0(07):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Along with the progress of Chinese pharmaceutical industry, as well as the development of natural products in the world, the need of medicinal plant resources is increasing, which results in the ruinous destruction of endangered medicinal plants. The field cultivation and wild tending cultivation could not solve all the resource problems and the help with bioengineering technolgy will be needed in this field. Micropropagation could quickly supply the shoots with good quality medicinal plants by two ways, the shoot and root induction through callus or the other is shoot development by somatic embryos. The regenerated shoots could be transferred into the field for the base of field cultivation or tending cultivation. In addition, the active compounds could be produced by the cultivated medicinal plant cells, tissues, or organs in bioreactor, which could decrease the cost at industrial level. In China, the bioengineering technology should be developed and applied to the medicinal plants development, because the most resources to support the whole traditiolal Chinese medicine will be utilized, moreover, in China the most amount of extracts from medicinal plants are used and exported all over the world.
