Generation of the potent anti-malarial drug artemisinin in tobacco

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Figure 1: The pathway and constructs for engineering artemisinin production in tobacco.
Figure 2: Production of artemisinin in engineered tobacco plants.

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We thank I. Kaye for his support and assistance. This work was partially funded by the Israel Science Foundation grant nos. 269/09 and 432/10, F.I.R.S.T. 432/10 and BARD grant no. US-4322-10. A.V. is an incumbent of the Wolfson Chair in Floriculture.

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  1. Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

    • Moran Farhi
    • , Elena Marhevka
    • , Julius Ben-Ari
    • , Orit Edelbaum
    • , Ben Spitzer-Rimon
    •  & Alexander Vainstein

  2. Department of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition, The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

    • Anna Algamas-Dimantov
    • , Hagai Abeliovich
    •  & Betty Schwartz

  3. Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    • Zhuobin Liang
    • , Vardit Zeevi
    •  & Tzvi Tzfira

  4. Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    • Tzvi Tzfira

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Farhi, M., Marhevka, E., Ben-Ari, J. et al. Generation of the potent anti-malarial drug artemisinin in tobacco. Nat Biotechnol 29, 1072–1074 (2011) doi:10.1038/nbt.2054

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