<正>自古以来竹子作为一种重要的自然资源 ,在人们的日常生活中得到了广泛的应用。随着竹材加工工艺的不断改进 ,以竹子为原料的新产品层出不穷。竹材的工业化利用 ,使竹子已经不再是“穷人的木材”,竹制精品已称豪华 ;而竹子的化学利用将成为开拓高附加值竹产品的有效途径。在基础理论研究方面 ,竹子生物多样性的研究成为新的热点。竹林的生态功能及其在可持续发展中的重要性愈来愈受到国际社会的广泛关注。在拉丁美洲和非洲 ,以及在没有天然竹林分布的欧洲和北美洲都日趋注重对竹类的研究与开发利用。现代生物学技术为从分子水平揭示竹类植物系统发育和个体发育的机制提供了更有效的手段

As an important nature resource, bamboo has been widely used for numerous purposes in people’s daily life. With the progress of the bamboo processing technology, many new approaches for utilization were explored in recent years. Bamboo is no longer "poor man’s timber" due to the industrial utilization.High quality bamboo based products become luxury. The chemical utilization of bamboo will be the optimistical way to produce high value bamboo products. The biodiversity and the related aspects have been also a hot topic in bamboo research area. The ecological function of the bamboo and the importance for sustainable development has been considered world widely. In Latin America,Africa,as well as in Europe and North America people pay more and more attention to bamboo research and utilization. Modern bio techniques provide a powerful tool for revealing the mystery of phylogeny and ontogeny at molecular level.