Hao Wang , Kunzhi Li

Faculty of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650500, China
Author    Correspondence author
Medicinal Plant Research, 2021, Vol. 11, No. 2   doi: 10.5376/mpr.2021.11.0002
Received: 18 Feb., 2021    Accepted: 26 Feb., 2021    Published: 04 Mar., 2021

This article was first published in Molecular Plant Breeding in Chinese, and here was authorized to translate and publish the paper in English under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Wang H., and Li K.Z. 2021, Research status and prospect in molecular biology of Amorphophallus, Medicinal Plant Research, 11(2): 1-7 (doi: 10.5376/mpr.2021.11.0002)

Amorphophallus is an important economic crop in southern China. Because of its abundant konjac glucomannan (KGM) in its bulb, it has wide application and development value in food, medicine, chemical industry, textile and other industries. With the rapid development of Amorphophallus industry, molecular biology technology has become an important method to study the growth and development, genetic breeding of Amorphophallus, and promote the rapid development of Amorphophallus genetic breeding and molecular biology research. In view of this, this paper reviews the progress of Amorphophallus in molecular biology in recent years, including: (1) karyotype study; (2) Application of molecular marker technology; (3) Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and microRNA studies; (4) Research on functional genes. The existing problems and future development direction of Amorphophallus molecular biology research were described, which provide reference for the related research.

Amorphophallus; Molecular biology; Molecular marker; Omics; Functional genes