Progress on Plant Anthocyanin Biosynthesis and Regulation

Anthocyanin with important nutritional and medical usages is flavonoids in plant metabolism,and decides the color of flowers,fruit,testa,stem leaves and roots and so on in angiosperm.Recently studies on the biosynthetic pathway were undertaken continuously.The research status and development tendency of plant anthyocyanin were summarized,including the anthocyanin biosynthetic pathway,structural gene and regulator genes and their functional study participating in the biosynthetic pathway and environment factors affecting the biosynthetic pathway.