药用植物学英语阅读

　　《药用植物学英语阅读》是“高等学校专门用途英语（ESP）系列教材”之一，是英语教学后续课程所使用的教材，是根据新时期大学英语教学的发展和新形势下我国高等教育人才培养目标的要求而开发的。该系列教材旨在将大学英语教学与学生所学专业相结合，以提高大学生的英语能力和专业英语水平，使生物学等专业的学生毕业后可以直接运用英语从事与本专业相关的工作，或者继续学习深造，为进行学术研究及参加学术活动打下坚实的基础。《药用植物学英语阅读》分为四章，一章“药用植物和植物药概述”（中药资源学）；第二章“药用植物栽培”（中药栽培学）；第三章“药用植物种质鉴定与品种选育”（中药鉴定学）；第四章“药用植物资源的开发与利用”（应用中药学）。每章围绕一个主题，再细化为若干小主题，每个小主题有五篇阅读文章，各主题内容相互衔接，前后呼应，文章皆取材于前沿的、报纸杂志、网络媒体等。

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Chapter One Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines
1．1 Concepts of Medicinal Plants
Passage 1 Medicinal Plants
Passage 2 Medicinal Plants from Ancient Times to the Present
Passage 3 Background of Agricultural and Collection Practices for Medicinal Plants
Passage 4 African Medicinal Plants
Passage 5 Traditions and Medicinal Plants
1．2 History of Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines
Passage 1 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part I
Passage 2 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part II
Passage 3 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part III
Passage 4 Historical Review of Medicinal Plants' Usage——Part IV
Passage 5 Increasing Popularity of Medicinal Plants
1．3 Medicinal Plant Resources and Classification
Passage 1 Medicinal Plant Resources
Passage 2 The Conservation of Medicinal Plants
Passage 3 Medicinal Plant Resources in Nature
Passage 4 Cultivation of Medicinal Plants in Asia
Passage 5 Medicinal Plants and Phytomedicines
1．4 Medicinal Plants and Health
Passage 1 Medicinal Plants： A Re-emerging Health Aid——Part I
Passage 2 Medicinal Plants： A Re-emerging Health Aid——Part II
Passage 3 Underrated Medicinal Plants——Part I
Passage 4 Underrated Medicinal Plants——Part II
Passage 5 Underrated Medicinal Plants——Part III
1．5 The Importance of Medicinal Plants in the Domestic and Foreign Medical Field
Passage 1 The Importance and Scope of Medicinal Plants
Passage 2 Medicinal Plants Are Important for Today's Medicines
Passage 3 Role of Traditional Medicine in Public Health
Passage 4 Traditional Practices and Importance of Medicinal Plants
Passage 5 Traditional Medicine in the Health System
1．6 More Readings
Passage 1 Sustainable Utilization of Traditional Chinese Medicine Resources
Passage 2 Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
Passage 3 Cultivation of Medicinal Plants
Passage 4 Ecological Impact of Medicinal Plants
Passage 5 Management of Medicinal Plants in the Himalayas of Nepal
Chapter Two Cultivation of Medicinal Plants
2．1 An Overview
Passage 1 Research and Implementation of Good Agricultural Practice for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Materials in Jilin Province
Passage 2 Traditional Chinese Medicine in North America． Opportunities for Small Farms?
Passage 3 WHO Guidelines on Good Agricultural and Collection Practices （GACP） for Medicinal Plants
Passage 4 Herbs Farming
Passage 5 The Movement Toward Organic Herb Cultivation in China
2．2 Cultivation
Passage 1 Cultivation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants for Specialty Industrial Materials
Passage 2 Vegetative Forms of Propagation
Passage 3 Genetic Transformation Systems for Medicinal Plants and Public Perception of Biotechnology
Passage 4 Assessing African Medicinal Plants for Efficacy and Safety
Passage 5 Guidelines for Sustainable Cultivation and Harvesting of Medicinal Plants
2．3 Cultivation Techniques
Passage 1 Cultivating Medicinal Herbs， with a Focus on At-risk Woodland Medicinals
Passage 2 Medical Cannabis Cultivation Methods
Passage 3 The Application of Drought Stress During the Cultivation of
Medicinal Plants
Passage 4 Bringing Medicinal Plants into Cultivation： Opportunities and
Challenges for Biotechnology
Passage 5 Seed Germination and Seedling Growth of Some Highly Traded Chinese Medicinal Plants
Chapter Three Germplasm Identification and Selective Breeding of Medicinal Plants
3．1 Application of Biotechnology on Germplasm Evaluation of Medicinal Plants
Passage 1 Advent of Next-generation Sequencing Platforms
Passage 2 Development and Characterization of EST-SSR Markers in the Chinese Medicinal Plant
Passage 3 Evaluation of Protein Extraction Methods for Vitis Vinifera Leaf and Root Proteome Analysis by Two-dimensional Electrophoresis （Adapted）
Passage 4 Genetic Variation and Metabolic Pathway Intricacy Govern the Active Compound Content and Quality of the Chinese Medicinal Plant （Adapted）
Passage 5 Discussion of NGS Applications
3．2 Molecular Marker-assisted Breeding
Passage 1 Crop Breeding for Salt Tolerance in the Era of Molecular Markers and Marker-assisted Selection （Adapted）
Passage 2 Marker-assisted Selection （MAS） in Rice
Passage 3 Modern Plant Breeding
Passage 4 Scientists Breed a Better Seed， Trait by Trait
Passage 5 What Exactly Is a Genetically Modified Plant．9
3．3 Tissue Cultule Technology and Breeding
Passage 1 Plant Tissue Culture
Passage 2 The Many Dimensions of Plant Tissue Culture Research （Adapted）
Passage 3 Quantification of the Tissue-culture Induced Variation in Barley （Discussion）
Passage 4 Plant Tissue Culture： Current Status and Opportunities （Adapted）
Passage 5 Abstracts
3．4 Conventional Cross Breeding
Passage 1 Breeding Systems of Plant Species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau （Adapted）
Passage 2 Analysis of the Leaf Methylomes of Parents and Their Hybrids Provides New Insight into Hybrid Vigor in Populus Deltoids （Adapted）
Passage 3 Diversity of Genome Size and Tyl-copia in Epimedium Species Used for Traditional Chinese Medicines
Passage 4 Natural Hybridization of Wild Cucurbita Sororia Group and Domesticated C． Mixta in Southern Sonora， Mexico
Passage 5 Abstracts
Chapter Four Exploitation and Utilization of Medicinal Plants
4．1 Medicinal and Edible Plants
Passage 1 Cinnamon （Cinnamomum Zeylanicum） （Adapted）
Passage 2 Ganoderma Lucidum， Reishi or Ling Zhi， a Fungus Used in Oriental Medicine
Passage 3 Ginger （Zingiber Offieinale）
Passage 4 Ginseng
Passage 5 Skullcap： Potential Medicinal Crop
4．2 Concept and Preparation of Phytomedicines
Passage 1 A New Dawn for the Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Cancer Therapy Apoptosis by TCM
Passage 2 Ginkgo （Ginkgo Biloba）
Passage 3 Introduction to Medicinal Plants
Passage 4 Metabolic Engineering Approaches for Production of Bioehemicals in Food and Medicinal Plants （Adapted）
Passage 5 Synthesized Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plants
4．3 Examples of Application
Passage 1 Chinese Bayberry
Passage 2 Health Benefits of Lavender Essential Oil
Passage 3 Health Benefits of Mint （Adapted）
Passage 4 Lotus Seed： Food and Medicine
Passage 5 The Use of Medicinal Plants （Adapted）