The article presents the results of study Artemisia scoparia Waldst. & Kit. (paniculate wormwood) and annua L. (annual wormwood), grown in Nikitsky Botanical Garden - National Scientific Center Russian Academy Sciences (NBG-NSC RAS). is originator cv. varieties. Tavrida Novichok, which are included Register varieties Russia allowed for distribution south Russia. Both interest as resource ha...

Schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease, imposes substantial health and economic burdens on impoverished groups living in predominantly rural areas. Praziquantel (PZQ) is the only drug available for treatment, it not completely efficacious. Artemisia annua afra infusions were proposed to possess antischistosomal activities recently retracted publication of clinical trial, leading our inve...

The anticoccidial effect of Artemisia annua and Pimpinella anisum on Eimeria tenella infection (1500 oocysts/chicken) has been studied. The products were used as oil administered 7.5% in water and as powder 1.5% in food. The effects of A. annua and P. anisum on E. tenella infection were assessed by clinical signs, mortality, fecal oocyst shedding, lesional score, body weight gain and feed conve...

Malaria, known as the "fevers," has been treated for over three thousand years in China with extracts of plants of the genus Artemisia (including Artemisia annua, A. opiacea, and A. lancea) from which the active compound is artemisin, a sesquiterpene that is highly effective in the treatment of the disease, especially against young forms of the parasite. South American Indians in the seventeent...

1 Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, 2 Department of Horticulture, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States, 3 U.S. Salinity Laboratory, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Riverside, CA, United States, 4 Department of Seed, Crop and Horticultural Sciences, University of Eldoret...

The emergence of terpene cyclization was critical to the evolutionary expansion of chemical diversity yet remains unexplored. Here we report the first discovery of an epistatic network of residues that controls the onset of terpene cyclization in Artemisia annua. We begin with amorpha-4,11-diene synthase (ADS) and (E)-β-farnesene synthase (BFS), a pair of terpene synthases that produce cyclic o...