Increasing Artemisinin Production with a High-Biomass Crop (IMAGE)

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Increasing Artemisinin Production with a High-Biomass Crop

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This is a summary of the method used by researchers to transfer the metabolic pathway for artemisinic acid from Artemisia annua to the high-biomass crop, tobacco, thereby increasing production of the acid.

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Fuentes et al. and eLife

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