New Biotechnologies Used for Licorice Research / 中国药学杂志

ABSTRACT

As a medicine and food homology plant, licorice has received extensive attention from many pharmacologists and biologists. The authors reviewed the new biotechnologies applied to licorice in recent years, including the research on the key enzyme genes involved in the biological synthetic pathway of the active constituents, the formation mechanism of genuineness based on genes, the gene regulation of the biosynthesis of active components, and DNA identification of licorice, aiming to bring up some ideas for deeper studies of licorice.