Aftab Tariq (Hrsg.): Artemisia Annua

Artemisia annua is a well-known medicinal plant used for a number of purposes, including malaria. The present demand for its extract, artemisinin, far outpaces its supply. This book highlights the different approaches to improving artemisinin content in the plant, including 'omics', and provides coverage of its agricultural and pharmaceutical uses."This book summarises several aspects of current research into Artemisia annua, the source of a compound that has proved very effective in treating certain types of malaria. Although the various contributions are quite wide ranging, the focus tends to be on artemisinin production and the improvements in yield that are possible using modern biotechnology. [...] Artemisia annua is only one of a large number of plants used in Chinese traditional medicine that deserve to be researched in detail. This book will strengthen the case for such work." -John Edmondson, © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018