Research progress in genes level of medicinal plants based on molecular phylogeography / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Phylogeography is a hot point in the field of Chinese materia medica (CMM) in the study on the genetic diversity of medicinal plants, geo-herbs formation mechanisms, and the construction of core collection. In recent years, the scholars in China studied the functional gene screening and the genomics associated with DNA differences in the field of CMM resources. And they have in-depth studied the functional genes of Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Artemisia annua, Salvia miltiorrhiza, and other medicinal plants. It will be the mainstream for functional gene screening of medicinal plants based on molecular phylogeography and geo-herbs genomics in the future researches and applications. In the paper, the authors review the recent progress in molecular phylogeography in the molecular identification of CMM, the formation mechanism of CMM genuineness, particularly the medicinal plant functional genes screening on which the genomic study is carried, and so on.