… secondary metabolites in plants. The focus of the present review is the influence of abiotic
factors on secondary metabolite … important secondary metabolites obtained in our laboratory. …

… affect plant growth and biosynthesis of secondary metabolites (SMs). Plant … stress. Plant
SMs are compounds that play an essential part in the interaction of plants with abiotic stresses. …

… in coping with the stress and defensive stimuli. The past recent decades had witnessed
renewed interest to study abiotic factors that influence secondary metabolism during in vitro and …

… Why is understanding ‘secondary’ responses difficult? Given that secondary metabolites …
than the products of primary metabolism, ‘carbon-based secondary compounds’ and the source-…

… SMs provide multistress tolerance, including abiotic and biotic stresses. … stress is perceived
through roots as a stress signal through cell to cell signaling networks. These stress signals …

… by stress signals in plants, however, their roles in plant stress … the biosynthesis of secondary
metabolites have not been … plant stress responses through mediating secondary metabolism…

… stress signal perception and robust signal transduction machinery amplifying the stress
signal … Drought stress, as many other stresses, generates ROS (reactive oxygen species) and …

… Plants sense light through specific molecules called photoreceptors that trigger specific
signals for photomorphogenesis or other defense systems. Depending on the dose rate and …

… to wounding stress produce secondary metabolites. Several of these metabolites prevent
chronic … occur after the production of signals (1) and the activation of the primary and secondary …

… these stresses. The accumulation of secondary metabolites is one of the responses (Figure
1)… Transcriptional factors (TFs) play a role in plant defense control by detecting stress signals …