Pertumbuhan dan alokasi biomassa pada tanaman Artemisia annua L. (Growth and biomass alocation of Artemisia annua)

Artemisia annua L. is known as one of the plants producing artemisinin, ie active compound that is used for anti-malaria theraphy. This plant has potency to be cultivated in Indonesia through seedlings and cuttings. The objective of this study was to compare growth and biomass allocation of plants from seedlings and cuttings. The experiment was set using Completely Randomize Design with one factor. The factor is type of plant propagation which cutted plant derived from three different ages of mother plants (1.5, 2, and 2.5 months after planting) and seedlings as control. The result showed that growth and biomass alleviation of the cuttings plants are more rapid than the seedlings. However, the cutting plants were flowering earlier than the seedling. At three months after planted, more than 70% of the cutting plants population have flowered. It is implied that the plants from cutting will loss about 70% of its yield potency than the seedling. On the other hand, there was no significant effect of the age of mother plants on growth and biomass of the cutted plant (p>0.05). Therefore, seedling were more effective than cutted plant non A. annua cultivation.