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Enhancement of artemisinin content through four cycles of recurrent selection with relation to heritability, correlation and molecular marker in Artemisia annua L.
Planta medica - 1 Sept 2010
Paul Shilpi, Khanuja Suman P S, Shasany Ajit Kumar, Gupta Madan Mohan, Darokar Mahendra P, Saikia Dharmendra, Gupta Anil Kumar
Abstract excerpt
Due to the high demand and low yield of the anti-malarial drug artemisinin in natural populations of Artemisia annua (Quinghao), an attempt has been made to enhance the artemisinin content through 4 cycles of recurrent selection (C(0)-C(3)) using selected genotypic and phenotypic traits. Based on their phenotypic and genotypic characteristics, the top 5% plants of each cycle were selected, and their seedlings...
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