Studies on Collection Breeding and Application of Zingiberaceae Plants Wild Resources in China

Abstract

Zingiberaceae wild plants are abundant, diverse in form and color, and are important resources for the development of new varieties of cultivation. There are about 1300 species of 52 genera in the world, which are widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. The application value of Zingiberaceae wild plant resources has long attracted the attention of domestic experts and scholars. However, so far, introduction, breeding and application of Zingiberaceae wild plant resources have not been systematically introduced and studied. In this paper, based on the analysis of Zingiberaceae wild plants germplasm resources distribution, the result was reported that South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences introduced and related studies on the Zingiberaceae wild plant germplasm resources and has collected Zingiberaceae wild plants 18 genera and 116 species in China since the 1970s. Now, all the Zingiberaceae wild plants have planted in the endangered base and the greenhouse in South China Botanical Garden of China Academy of Sciences. At the same time, through the collection of wild resources of Zingiberaceae plants in China, systematic research on sexual, asexual and tissue culture and breeding technology of Zingiberaceae wild plants was carried out to explore the application of wild resources of Zingiberaceae plants in underforest economy, ethnic medicine and garden landscape, in order to provide references for further development and utilization of zingiberaceae wild plant resources.