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Network Pharmacology, 2019, 4(1-2): 1-5
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Naturalness and preference for species selection of Chinese medicinal seed plants

WenJun Zhang1, GuangHua Liu2
1School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China; International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Hong Kong
2Guangdong AIB Polytech College, Guangzhou 510507, China

Received 1 June 2018;Accepted 28 June 2018;Published 1 June 2019
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Abstract
In present study, the electivity index was used to estimate the preference for species selection of Chinese medicinal seed plants based on the code database of Chinese herbal medicine, CHM-DATA Ver. 1.0 (Zhang, 2017a-d) and the world's seed plant data. The results showed that people consciously select Chinese medicinal seed plants from the families Polygonaceae and Ranunculaceae, followed by Liliaceae, Solanaceae, Umbelliferae, etc., and people avoid select medicinal seed plant species from Cyperaceae and Gramineae, followed by Euphorbiaceae, Leguminosae, Compositae, Cruciferae, Rubiaceae, Convolvulaceae, Orchidaceae, Polygonaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Dianthus, Malvaceae, and Rosaceae, etc.

Keywords Chinese medicinal plants;seed plants; species selection;preference.


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