10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 2 Issue 4 2011 (October - December) An efficient lessThan i greaterThan in vitro lessThan /i greaterThan propagation system for an elite clone EC-353508 of lessThan i greaterThan Artemisia annua lessThan /i greaterThan L., an important antimalarial drug plant has been developed. lessThan i greaterThan The best organogenic response, including adventitious multiple shoots and their elongation, was obtained when nodal explants were cultured on MS medium supplemented with 10 lessThan /i greaterThan µM 2-isopentenyl adenine (2iP). An average of 17.7±0.88 shoots with an average shoot length of 5.25±0.17 (cm) was differentiated per explant. Excised lessThan i greaterThan in vitro lessThan /i greaterThan shoots organized roots in cent percent cultures when subcultured on half MS basal medium augmented with 5 µM α-naphthalene acetic acid (NAA). The plantlets were gradually hardened and transferred to sterile garden soil: soilrite (1:1) mixture for acclimatization. This is the first report of an efficient and cost effective protocol for direct shoot multiplication from nodal explants in an elite clone of lessThan i greaterThan Artemisia annua lessThan /i greaterThan .  Gaurav Sharma, Vinay Shankar And Veena Agrawal Artemisia annua L., Adventitious shoots, 2iP (2-isopentenyl adenine), NAA (naphthalene acetic acid), Soilrite, Acclimatization 205-214