Abstract
Molecular pharmacognosy is a science that uses molecular biology technology to study crude drugs, which refers to either fresh or simply processed products derived from plants, animals, and minerals, to be used directly as a natural medicine in medical care or as a raw material for the production of medicine. Molecular pharmacognosy has been given the following main research areas: systematic assortment of varieties of Chinese herbs and study of quality standardization, conservation of medicinal plant and animal biodiversity and research of sustainable utilization of crude drugs resources, medicinal plant marker breeding and new variety cultivation, gene regulation of metabolic pathway and directional control of the quality of Chinese herbal medicines, the use of genetic engineering and tissue culture technique to achieve high-level expression and production of natural active ingredients or genetically modified ingredients, genetic engineering and green pollution-free medicinal plant.
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Huang, Lq., Zhao, Y., Yuan, Y. (2019). Emerging Molecular Pharmacognosy. In: Huang, Lq. (eds) Molecular Pharmacognosy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9034-1_1
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