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Elicitation: An Efficient Strategy for Enriched Production of Plant Secondary Metabolites

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An array of organic compounds synthesized by plants for counteracting adverse environmental conditions and pathogens are called plant secondary metabolites. These phytochemicals are exclusive and impeccable sources of various high-demand, lifesaving, and commercially important pharmaceuticals. Elicitation is the significant approach of triggering physiological modifications and stimulating plant protection mechanisms by adding elicitors for the improved secretion of secondary metabolites. The effect of various biotic and abiotic elicitors on in vitro plant cultures and hairy root cultures for the increased accumulation of metabolites has been witnessed in majority of medicinal plants. Further, full exploration of research in this particular area will open up new horizons in secondary metabolite synthesis pathways and metabolomics. Here in this review, we focus on the mechanism and attributes of elicitation, types of elicitors, and its effect on plant secondary metabolite production.

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    Muthiah Joe Virgin Largia

  2. Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India

    Jeyabalan Shilpha

  3. Department of Biotechnology Engineering, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel

    Lakkakula Satish

  4. Department of Biotechnology, East West First Grade College of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Mallappa Kumara Swamy

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    Manikandan Ramesh

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Largia, M.J.V., Shilpha, J., Satish, L., Swamy, M.K., Ramesh, M. (2022). Elicitation: An Efficient Strategy for Enriched Production of Plant Secondary Metabolites. In: Swamy, M.K., Kumar, A. (eds) Phytochemical Genomics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5779-6_19

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