Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system

BACKGROUND: Artemisia annua L. is an important source for artemisinin, a potent drug for treating malaria. This study aims to map and predict the potential geographic distribution of A. annua L. in China. METHODS: The Geographic Information System for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM-GIS) was devel...

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Autores principales: Huang, Linfang, Xie, Caixiang, Duan, Baozhong, Chen, Shilin
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20470438
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-5-18
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author Huang, Linfang
Xie, Caixiang
Duan, Baozhong
Chen, Shilin
author_facet Huang, Linfang
Xie, Caixiang
Duan, Baozhong
Chen, Shilin
author_sort Huang, Linfang
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description BACKGROUND: Artemisia annua L. is an important source for artemisinin, a potent drug for treating malaria. This study aims to map and predict the potential geographic distribution of A. annua L. in China. METHODS: The Geographic Information System for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM-GIS) was developed and used to map the potential geographic distribution of A. annua L. RESULTS: Climatic, edaphic and topographic characteristics of A. annua L. microhabitats in Youyang County were mapped to find distribution patterns. The maps identified that certain habitats in the Chongqing region and some potential regions, especially in Guizhou Province, possess similarity indices of ≥98%. In particular, high quality microhabitats A. annua L. were found in the Wuling mountains region. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates a GIS approach to predict potential habitats for A. annua L. TCM-GIS is a powerful tool for assessing bioclimatic suitability for medicinal plants.
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spelling pubmed-28860372010-06-16 Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system Huang, Linfang Xie, Caixiang Duan, Baozhong Chen, Shilin Chin Med Research BACKGROUND: Artemisia annua L. is an important source for artemisinin, a potent drug for treating malaria. This study aims to map and predict the potential geographic distribution of A. annua L. in China. METHODS: The Geographic Information System for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM-GIS) was developed and used to map the potential geographic distribution of A. annua L. RESULTS: Climatic, edaphic and topographic characteristics of A. annua L. microhabitats in Youyang County were mapped to find distribution patterns. The maps identified that certain habitats in the Chongqing region and some potential regions, especially in Guizhou Province, possess similarity indices of ≥98%. In particular, high quality microhabitats A. annua L. were found in the Wuling mountains region. CONCLUSION: The present study demonstrates a GIS approach to predict potential habitats for A. annua L. TCM-GIS is a powerful tool for assessing bioclimatic suitability for medicinal plants. BioMed Central 2010-05-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2886037/ /pubmed/20470438 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-5-18 Text en Copyright ©2010 Huang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research
Huang, Linfang
Xie, Caixiang
Duan, Baozhong
Chen, Shilin
Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system
title Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system
title_full Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system
title_fullStr Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system
title_full_unstemmed Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system
title_short Mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding Artemisia annua L. (Qinghao) in China with a geographic information system
title_sort mapping the potential distribution of high artemisinin-yielding artemisia annua l. (qinghao) in china with a geographic information system
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20470438
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8546-5-18
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