[Prospecting application of CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology in research of medicinal plants]

CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology is a newly discovered genome editing technology in recent years.It has been widely used in many fields such as gene therapy, gene function research, animal model-making,cropvariety improvement and so on. This article briefly introduces the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system, and discusses its potential applications in the research of medicinal plants, including functional genomics studies, secondary metabolism and synthetic biology research of important active components and molecular breeding research. CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing technology provides a new method for the research of medicinal plants.