The anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, production can be maximized by ratooning, a cropping practice of reharvesting shoots 2-3 times from the same roots. This project showed that increasing the amount and type of nitrogen applied to plants increased artemisinin yields in subsequent ratoon crops. This is a low cost method for increasing yields of an important drug needed to treat malaria in developing countries.

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Creator

• Mattern, Katrina Marie
• Grant, Nicole Elizabeth
• Kelly, Eileen Elizabeth

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-041806-103742

Advisor

• Weathers, Pamela

Year

• 2006

Date created

• 2006-04-18

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biology & Biotechnology

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved