Because of a lot of aroma components in the flowers, Osmanthus fragrans is widely used as ornamental tree species and its flowers is used as materials of spices and food additives. Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) plays an important regulation role in growth, development, stress resistance and aroma synthesis of plants. Using the flowers of O fragrans var. semperflorens as materials, the full-length cDNA of ADH gene (termed OfADH) was successfully cloned through rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE), which has the 1128 bp open reading frame (ORF) ...