Artemisia annua : pharmacology and biotechnology / Tariq Aftab, Jorge F.S. Ferreira, M. Masroor A. Khan, M. Naeem, editors.

Heidelberg : Springer, [2014]

vi, 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

How techniques of herbal drug perparation affect the therapeutic outcome : reflections on qinghao (herba Artemisiae annuae) in the history of the Chinese materia medica / Elisabeth Hu -- Ethnopharmacology of Artemisia annua L. : a review / Alia Sadiq, Muhammad Qasim Hayat, and Muhammad Ashraf -- Artemisia annua : a miraculous herb to cure malaria / M. Naeem [and others] -- Whole plant approaches to therapeutic use of Artemisia annua L. (Asteraceae) / Pamela Weather [and others] -- Pharmacological potentials of artemisinin and related sesquiterpene lactones : recent advances and trends / María José Abad Martínez [and others] -- Taxonomic implications of Artemisia annua L. / Sadia Malik, Muhammad Qasim Hayat, and Muhammad Ashraf -- Trichomes in Artemisia annua : initiation, development, maturation, and the possibilities to influence these factors / Anders Kjaer, Kai Grevsen, and Martin Jensen -- Potential methods to improve the efficiency of artemisinin extraction from Artemisia annua / Rhianna Briars and Larysa Paniwnyk -- Extraction, purification, and quantification of artemisinin and its analogs from Artemisia annua L. / Shuoqian Liu, Na Tian, and Zhonghua Liu -- Effect of mineral nutrition, growth regulators, and environmental stresses on biomass production and artemisinin concentration of Artemisia annua L. / Tariq Aftab, M. Masroor A. Khan, and J.F.S. Ferreira -- Recent advances to enhance yield of artemisinin : a novel antimalarial compound, in Artemisia annua L. plants / Mauji Ram [and others] -- Artemisinin in cancer therapy / Bianca Ivanescu and Andreia Corciova -- Recent developments in controlling insect, acari, nematode, and plant pathogens of agricultural and medical importance by Artemisia annua L. (Asteraceae) / Jalal Jalali Sendi and Roya Khosravi -- Reverse pharmacology and drug discovery : Artemisia annua and its anti-HIV activity / Frank van der Kooy -- Production of artemisinin in planta and in microbial systems need not be mutually exclusive / Ebiamadon Andi Brisibe and Peter Nkachukwu Chukwurah.

Includes bibliographical references.