Research Progress on Lilium Plants

Lilium spp.is a perennial flowering bulb of Lilium of Liliaceae.It has high ornamental value because of its exotic flower shape,elegant flower posture,flamboyance flower color and long florescence.It is a good material for cut flowers,potted and garden,and some varieties could also be eat as a vegetable,and some are used as traditional Chinese medicine.Its horticultural research including resource distribution,cytology,cultivation condition,scale breeding and tissue culture of Lilium and breeding research including crossbreeding,radiation breeding,molecular breeding at home and aboard were introduced in this paper,and how to establish gene pool of germplasm and improve breeding level were prospected.