云南省具有丰富的棕榈藤种质资源,棕榈藤作为一种重要的非木材植物,不仅在全球生物多样性保护、经济贡献和生态重建等方面起着重要的作用,而且,与当地居民有着密切的联系,为各少数民族创造了财富。然而,随着经济的发展,森林资源减少,环境条件退化,棕榈藤资源日益减少,特别是有些优良棕榈藤种类处于濒危状态。因此,优良棕榈藤的引入、繁殖和栽培,不仅将满足棕榈藤发展的需要,而且亦将扩大良种藤的遗传基因库,为未来棕榈藤资源的进一步开发利用打下坚实的基础。论文基于云南棕榈藤资源发展的要求,对棕榈藤资源现状、利用、发展潜力和策略进行探讨。

Yunnan is recognized as a very important region with rich germ plash resources of rat-tan plant in China,and the local ethnic groups possess abundant indigenous knowledge on rattan cultivation,utilization and conservation.Rattan,as a kind of non-timber forest product,plays an important role in biodiversity conservation,potential economic contribution,ecological security and other global issues.Moreover,it is closely related with local people,and earned income for various local minority nationalities.However,there are also some problems in the rattan industry with the economic development,such as destruction of tropical forest,environmental degradation,reduction of rattan resources,and especially some elite rattan species become scarce,even endangered.So the introduction,propagation and cultivation of the elite rattan species will not only satisfy the needs of rattan industry,but also create new employment opportunities,increase income of rural communities,efficiently protect natural resources and mitigate the pressure on natural forests,promote ecological sustainability and enrich the Chinese elite rattan species gene pool.This paper mainly discusses the present situation of rattan resources,their utilization and future development strategies,based on the demand of the rattan plantations,consisting of four objectives:(1)to sum-marize the characteristics of rattan resources and their distribution in Yunnan;(2)to introduce the current conditions in rattan studies;(3)to discuss the problems confronting rattan development;and(4)to recommend the rattan development strategies and scenario-based models in Yunnan.