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Salvia miltiorrhiza Resources, Cultivation, and Breeding

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The Salvia miltiorrhiza Genome

Part of the book series: Compendium of Plant Genomes ((CPG))

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Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge is the source species of Danshen listed in Chinese Pharmacopoeia (2015 edition). Currently, the germplasm of S. miltiorrhiza and its related species are collected and preserved in several universities, research institutes, and companies where projects on Danshen have been conducted or are being conducted. Attempts have been made to use molecular markers and DNA barcoding in evaluating the genetic diversity and species identification of medicinal Danshen materials. Different cultivation modes, such as direct seeding and root propagation, are used in different production areas in China, and the latter is more popular than the former. From growing seedlings, transplanting, field management, root harvesting, to primary processing and storage, experiments have been conducted by researchers to establish efficient standard operating procedures (SOPs). Elite cultivars are crucial in elevating farming economic values. Bulk selection, system selection, cross-breeding, and space mutation breeding are adopted to obtain new cultivars. With the need for excellent cultivated varieties and the advancement of the application of next-/third-generation sequencing technologies, the preservation, evaluation, and utilization of S. miltiorrhiza and its related species will go even further, and new groundbreaking cultivars and breeding techniques will emerge. The nationwide standardization project of seed quality, plantation, reproduction, and crude medicinal material and decoction should promote the Danshen production industry. The release of the genome sequence of S. miltiorrhiza and related transcriptome analysis would accelerate germplasm evaluation and utilization and promote the breeding of elite cultivars.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 81773847) and the CAMS Innovation Fund for Medical Sciences (CIFMS) (Grant No. 2016-I2M-2-003).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ministry of Education and National Engineering Laboratory for Breeding of Endangered Medicinal Materials, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development (IMPLAD), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100193, China

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Sui, C. (2019). Salvia miltiorrhiza Resources, Cultivation, and Breeding. In: Lu, S. (eds) The Salvia miltiorrhiza Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24716-4_2

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