title: [Hormesis and its application in medicinal plant growing].
abstract: Hormesis describes the low-dose stimulation and high-dose inhibition phenomena for all kind lives under toxicity environment. This paper generalized hormesis of medicinal plant on grow and metabolite after introducing the concept and study state of hormesis and analyzing hormesis mechanism and its significance. It points out that hormesis can be well used for medicinal plants growth, including increasing the metabolise, giving a dereaction for cultivated field chosen, guiding the agriculture management during the cultivation and improving the anti-stress.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, China Academy of Chinese Medicinal Sciences, Beijing 100700, China.
authors.forename: Lanping
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Xiaobo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Guang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Luqi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jiong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture / Q000379:methods*; D010946:Plants, Medicinal / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000378:metabolism*