Genetically modified plant may boost supply of a powerful malaria drug
Researchers tripled the amount of artemisinin naturally produced by sweet wormwood
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GREEN MEDICINE Derived from sweet wormwood plants, the antimalarial compound artemisinin usually composes 0.1 to 1 percent of the dry weight of the leaves. New research more than triples a plant’s yield of artemisinin, to 3.2 percent.
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