Tetraploid Artemisia annua hairy roots produce more artemisinin than diploids
- 13 March 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Plant Cell Reports
- Vol. 21 (8), 809-813
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-003-0587-8
Abstract
Hairy root cultures of diploid Artemisia annua L. (clone YUT16) grow rapidly and produce the antimalarial sesquiterpene artemisinin. Little is known about how polyploidy affects the growth of transformed hairy roots and the production of secondary metabolites. Using colchicine, we produced four stable tetraploid clones of A. annua L. from the YUT16 hairy root clone. Analysis showed major differences in growth and artemisinin production compared to the diploid clone. Tetraploid clones produced up to six times more artemisinin than the diploid parent. This study provides an initial step in increasing our understanding of the role of polyploidy in secondary metabolite production, especially in hairy roots.Keywords
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