Rationality of commodity criteria and traditional breeding of Polygala tenuifolia based on agronomic traits and determination of chemical components.
- Author:
Dan-Dan WANG
1
;
Lu BAI
1
;
Xiao-Shuang XU
1
;
Fu-Sheng ZHANG
1
;
Jie XING
1
;
Jin-Ping JIA
2
;
Hong-Ling TIAN
3
;
Xue-Mei QIN
1
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords: HPLC; Polygala tenuifolia; agronomic traits; breeding; commodity criteria
- From: China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica 2016;41(20):3733-3740
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
- Abstract: The agronomic traits (plant height, root diameter, root length, first lateral root height, lateral root amount, root weight) of 18 Polygala tenuifolia samples with different agronomic traits were analyzed, respectively. HPLC was used to analyze three main characteristic components including tenuifolin, polygalaxanthone Ⅲ, and 3,6'-disinapoyl sucrose. At last, the correlation between six agronomic traits and three main characteristic components were analyzed by scatter plot. We found no significant correlation between root diameter and three main characteristic components. There were no obvious correlations between tenuifolin and the remaining five agronomic traits. Short root length and first lateral root height as well as high lateral root amount resulted in high levels of polygalaxanthone Ⅲ in P. tenuifolia samples. High levels of 3,6'-disinapoyl sucrose were observed in P. tenuifolia samples with longer root. So, the current commodity criteria and traditional breeding of P. tenuifolia did not conform to pharmacopoeia standards, which excellent medicinal materials should have high contents of the main characteristic components. It was urgent to revise the current commodity criteria and breeding methods.
