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Monday, June 21, 2010

Institutes complete first gene map of Chinese medicinal plant

Two traditional Chinese medicine institutes announced the completion of a gene map of the plant Salvia miltiorrhiza, the first of its kind, on June 20 in Beijing.

The Institute of Medicinal Plants of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences launched a program to create a gene map of Salvia miltiorrhiza in conjunction with Hutchison Whampoa Guangzhou Baiyunshan Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd. They used the second generation of high-flux sequencing techniques to check salvia multiorrhiza's DNA order and finally finished its gene map.

The success of the gene map is seen as a step forward in the research of medicinal plants and the merger of front-line life science and traditional Chinese medicine. It promises new breakthroughs in the research of Chinese medicine.



This article was take from People's Daily Online, a Chinese newspaper. It was retrieved on June 21 2010 at 11:28 AM eastern standard time...The article was written  on june 21, 2010 at 14:22

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