基因芯片技术在药用植物研究中的应用

基因芯片技术是近年来迅速发展起来的一项生物技术。由于其具有大规模、高通量、平行检测等优势,已在多个领域得到广泛应用。根据新近的研究资料讨论该技术在药用植物中最新的应用情况,包括分离差异表达的基因及发现新基因、功能基因组学的研究、中药的鉴定、转基因药用植物的检测、药用植物作用分子机制及病害的相关研究等内容,并简要介绍其存在的问题及未来应用的展望。

Application of gene chip technology to medicinal plant researches

Recently,gene chip technology has become a rapidly developed biotechnology.It contains so many advantages including large-scale, high flux,and parallelism that it has been widely applied in many fields.In this paper,the updated advances on applications of gene chip technology to medicinal plant researches are discussed and the contents are ranged from isolation of differentially expressed genes,discovery of new genes,research on functional genomics,identification of Chinese materia medica,detection of genetically transformed medicinal plants,and the molecular mechanisms of medicinal plant pharmacology and their diseases as well.Some problems and prospects related to the technology are also briefly presented.