Mint is an overview of plant classification and breeding_0.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 17 Mint is an overview of plant classification and breeding Study: Housing Hai Ling, Liu Yan, Liang was Yuan, Llewelyn [Keywords:] mint genus; classification; breeding; Summary Labiatae mint genus (Mentha L.) plants are a class of widely used traditional Chinese medicine, is one of the world’s three major spices. As the bulk of Chinese herbal medicines commonly used, only the 2005 edition of lt;lt;Chinese Pharmacopoeiagt; “(a) gathers herbs and vegetable oil containing menthol, menthol as many as 45 kinds of commonly used Chinese medicine [1]. mint plants from stem and leaf extract of peppermint oil, pepper-like peppermint oil, Spearmint oil and processed Menthol obtained so widely used in medicine, food, cosmetics, spices, tobacco, and other industries. Mint plants as widely distributed, and polymorphism and interspecific hybridization is serious, so classification in the system is chaotic. Mint plants in China has a history of 400 years of cultivation, breeding work has been much attention and has made considerable great success. now at home and abroad mint species classification and overview of breeding research are summarized below, to the genus of the mint and used to provide reference for further research. 1 Classification Linnaeus is a mint was established in 1753, when there are 13 species recorded, after the increase in the subdivision and the new species, the species seen in the report, about 30 (Species) and more than 140 variants (Varieties ). This is probably the origin of the Mediterranean region in Europe, because its original groups are located in these areas, such as the diploid (2n = 24) of peppermint Mentha longifolia Linn., M.suaveolens Ehrh. And so on. This plant is likely to be in the Quaternary glacial and interglacial period, by the European Economic and Siberia, Xinjiang, Himalayan three routes into the country [2]. According to lt;”China Plant amp; Driver”gt; record, my mint plants There are 12