Lingyun Wan, Juan Huo, Qiulan Huang, Xiaowen Ji, Lisha Song, Zhanjiang Zhang, Limei Pan, Jine Fu, Mohamed A Abd Elhamid, Salma A Soaud, Rania M Y Heakel, Jihai Gao, Shugen Wei, Ahmed H El-Sappah
The medicinal herb Artemisia annua L. is prized for its capacity to generate artemisinin, which is used to cure malaria. Potentially influencing the biomass and secondary metabolite synthesis of A. annua is plant nutrition, particularly phosphorus (P). However, most soil P exist as insoluble inorganic and organic phosphates, which results to low P availability limiting plant growth and development. Although plants have developed several adaptation strategies to low P levels, genetics and metabolic responses to P status remain largely unknown...
February 8, 2024: Functional & Integrative Genomics