This project explored the symbiotic relationship between the plant Artemisia annua, which produces the antimalarial drug artemisinin, and the arbuscular mycorrhizal root fungus Glomus intraradices. A high-producing cultivar, SAM from the Weathers lab, was grown in two soil types, one seeded with fungal spores, to determine whether an increase in biomass, flavonoids, and artemisinin could occur. Differences in metabolites between plants grown from rooted cuttings and plants derived from tissue culture suggest a possible signal or mechanism for further study.

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Creator

• Fortin, Sarah Ashley
• Melchert, Victoria Rose

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042315-153050

Advisor

• Weathers, Pamela

Year

• 2015

Date created

• 2015-04-23

Location

• Nancy

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Biology & Biotechnology

Rights statement

• In Copyright