Production of secondary metabolites by means of plant cell, tissue, or organ cultures
originated in 1947, when James reported the occurrence of alkaloids in meristem cultures of …

For some years, there has been great interest in the exploitation of plant cell cultures to
produce fine chemicals. With a few exceptions, progress in commercialization has been …

Medicinal plants are rich sources of natural bioactive compounds used to treat many
diseases. With the development of the health industry, the market demands for Chinese …

Secondary metabolites, or secondary products, are compounds present in organisms which
are believed to have no role in the basic life process, but rather play secondary, non …

Metabolite profile of transgenic roots may differ from that of parental plant, but this feature is
not necessarily a disadvantage. The review focuses on new substances produced in hairy …

Main conclusion Medicinal and aromatic plants are known to produce secondary
metabolites that find uses as flavoring agents, fragrances, insecticides, dyes and drugs …

Elicitation is a possible aid to overcome various difficulties associated with the large‐scale
production of most commercially important bioactive secondary metabolites from wild and …

Conventionally, pharmaceutically important secondary metabolites such as flavonoids were
extracted directly from whole plants collected from the wild. This conventional method is not …

Medicinal plants produce valuable secondary metabolites with anticancer, analgesic,
anticholinergic or other activities, but low metabolite levels and limited available tissue …

We examined the effects of abiotic (methyl jasmonate [MeJA] and salicylic acid [SA]) and
biotic (yeast extract and chitosan) elicitors for improvement of bioactive compounds …