药用植物研究与开发面临资源枯竭、药效物质不明确及质量难以控制等难题。生物技术是一门通过生物科学工程技术来增加生物制品产量和提高生物制品质量, 从而满足人类日益增长的需求的技术。作为一种综合了生命科学与诸多现代科学理论与研究手段的高新技术, 生物技术在药用植物资源研究与开发方面具有广阔的应用前景。综述了近年来生物技术在药用植物资源开发与保护、药用植物品种改良与提升及天然药效物质的工业化生产等方面的应用进展, 以期为药用植物的深入开发和可持续利用提供参考。

Problems, being faced in medicinal plant research and development, are unclear drug substance, uncontrollable quality, exhausted resources, and so on. Biotechnology is a technology that increases the output and improves the quality of biological products through biological science and engineering technology, so as to meet the human's growing demand. Biotechnology as an integration of life sciences, modern scientific theories, and research methods of high and new technology, has broad application prospects in the field of medicinal plant resources. This paper reviewed the biotechnology applications about development and protection of the medicinal plant resources, the improvement and promotion of medicinal plant varieties, and the industrialization production of the natural medicinal materials, for the purpose that it can provide some references for the further research and development of medicinal plants.