Application of transcriptome sequencing in study of medicinal plants / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Transcriptome sequencing technology is a newly developed transcriptomics method. In the absence of the genome information of the species, sequencing is carried out to obtain genetic information. Transcriptome sequencing technology is an important molecular biology method with wide application in various research fields. Due to the deficience of the genetic information of medicinal plants, and the transcriptome sequencing research of medicinal plants is an active field in genomics. Researchers can investigate plant gene expression and analyze its function and regulatory mechanisms. Transcriptomics research on medicinal plants can help to solve problems such as genetic breeding, excellent resistance genes screening, and etc. This paper introduces the development of transcriptome sequencing, and reviews the application of transcriptome sequencing in medicinal plants in recent years from functional gene mining and secondary metabolite pathway exploration, which provide more basic data for medicinal plant studies.