Germplasm Resources and Genetic Breeding of Huang-Qi (Astragali Radix): A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Huang-Qi (Astragali radix) is one of the most widely used herbs in traditional Chinese medicine, derived from the dried roots of Astragalus membranaceus or Astragalus membranaceus var. mongholicus. To date, more than 200 compounds have been reported to be isolated and identified in Huang-Qi. However, information pertaining to Huang-Qi breeding is considerably fragmented, with fundamental gaps in knowledge, creating a bottleneck in effective breeding strategies. This review systematically introduces Huang-Qi germplasm resources, genetic diversity, and genetic breeding, including wild species and cultivars, and summarizes the breeding strategy for cultivars and the results thereof as well as recent progress in the functional characterization of the structural and regulat

SUBMITTER: Dong P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11351161 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature