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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 6 Medicinal Plant Breeding Research Authors: ZHOU Zhi-jun, Wu Xiaoyang, Meng Jiang, LIANG Na, Ge Shu-jun [Abstract] medicinal plants are a class of special-purpose economic plants in order to collect wild plants mainly breeding and cultivation techniques is weak, supply and demand contradiction. Incubation China in recent years a number of high-quality, high yield, strong resistance and a relatively wider adaptability of new varieties of medicinal plants, for resource protection and utilization of the foundation to promote the modernization of Chinese medicine. This paper reviews the recent breeding of medicinal plants in our country’s achievements, which mainly describes mutation breeding, tissue culture techniques, selective breeding, hybrid breeding, and its problems and prospects are briefly analyzed. [Keywords:] medicinal plants; germplasm resources; breeding Medicinal plants are a class of special-purpose economic plants. In China, the medicinal plants through the application and development of thousands of years, has formed a long history of traditional Chinese medicine. So far, China has reported and the application of 11 000 kinds of medicinal plants [1]. But in the long-term use of the process have been ignored in the sustainable use of wild germplasm resources in the research, led by the rich in many species become scarce, even to the endangered level. Such as licorice root, skullcap, Polygala tenuifolia, Chinese caterpillar fungus and so on reserves decreased significantly. To carry out the sustainable use of medicinal plant resources is to protect the genetic diversity of wild germplasm resources, protecting the environment the only effective means. In the sustainable use of resources of medicinal plants research, germplasm resources in seed preferred, excellent education is very important, especially the wild relatives of plants and old landraces are long-term natural selection and artificial selection of the product, d