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Artemisinin, an anti-malarial drug isolated from the annual wormwood Artemisia annua L., has a marked activity against chloroquine-resistant and chloroquine-sensitive strains of Plasmodium falciparum, and is useful in treatment of cerebral malaria. Shoot cultures of Artemisia annua L. were established on Murashige and Skoog basal medium which contained (per litre) 30 g sucrose, 0.5 mg 6-benzyladenine and 0.05 mg naphthaleneacetic acid. Using an optimized combination of sucrose (30 g/l), nitrate (45 mM), inorganic phosphate (200 mg/l), gibberellic acid (7 mg/l) and the ratio of NH4 +-N to NO3 −-N of 1:3, artemisinin production reached 26.7 mg/l after 30 days. This procedure provides a potential alternative for production of artemisinin from in vitro tissue cultures.
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Liu, CZ., Guo, C., Wang, Y. et al. Factors influencing artemisinin production from shoot cultures of Artemisia annua L.. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 19, 535–538 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025158416832
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