Transgenic Chinese Herbs

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" Transgenic Medicinal Plants (Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry)

[iLLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)by Y.P.S. Bajaj(Editor)

 

Product Description

Comprising 26 chapters, this volume deals with the genetic transformation of

medicinal plants. It describes methods to obtain plants resistant to insects,

diseases, herbicides, and plants with an increased production of compounds of

medicinal and pharmaceutical importance. The plant species included are Ajuga

reptans, Anthemis nobilis, Astragalus spp., Atropa belladonna, Catharanthus

roseus, Datura spp., Duboisia species, Fagopyrum spp., Glycyrrhiza uralensis,

Lobelia spp., Papaver somniferum, Panax ginseng, Peganum harmala, Perezia spp.,

Pimpinella anisum, Phyllanthus niruri, Salvia miltiorrhiza, Scoparia dulcis,

Scutellaria baicalesis, Serratula tinctoria, Solanum aculeatissimum, Solanum

commersonii, Swainsona galegifolia, tobacco, and Vinca minor. This book is of

special interest to advanced students, teachers, and researchers in the field of

pharmacy, plant tissue culture, phytochemistry, molecular biology, biomedical

engineering, and plant

biotechnology in general. "

 

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The above book was published ten years ago.  I wonder how much " progress " in

engineering medicinal plants has been made in the past ten years?  Like

genetically engineered crops, genetically engineered medicinal herbs

place entire species at risk for contamination with foreign DNA.  Because

contamination is inevitable, the production of genetically engineered plants is

incompatible with the maintenance of the original species through traditional

propagation methods.

 

Increasingly, I realize the extreme critical importance and priority of

developing sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants.  But even with this, we

can not afford to remain silent about genetic engineering.  

 

best regards,

 

Gena