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This book discusses the application of molecular biology in resource science and authentication of traditional Chinese medicine, reviews current developments in pharmacognosy, introduces new views and insights and predicts new directions of study.

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"Molecular Pharmacognosy" discusses the application of molecular biology in resource science and authentication of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). This book reviews the latest developments in pharmacognosy, introduces a series of new views and insights, presents the hotspots and focus of the field of study on molecular pharmacognosy, and predicts a new direction of study on the resource science of TCM. Furthermore, the book also provides an open communications platform for the development of molecular pharmacognosy. This book is intended for biomedical scientists and researchers in the fields of molecular biology, traditional medicine and natural pharmaceutics.

Professor Lu-qi Huang is Director of the Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization for Traditional Medicine (Chinese Materia Medica) and Vice-Chairman of the Australia Chinese Association for Biomedical Sciences Inc.

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Emerging molecular pharmacognosy.- Methodology.- Molecular Identification of traditional medicinal materials.- The mechanism of formation of Dao-di Herbs.- Seeking for new members of origin materials (a new usage of plant species) for CMM.- Salvation of rare & endangered medicinal plants.- Gene modification of pharmic plants germplasm resources.- Regulation of the active constituents´ production of medicinal plants.- Molecular mechanism and regulation on biosynthesis of active ingredients of medicinal plants

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