Biodiversity is adversely affected by the growing levels of synthetic chemicals released into
the environment due to agricultural activities. This has been the driving force for embracing …

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 …

Hairy roots derived from the infection of a plant by Rhizobium rhizogenes (previously
referred to as Agrobacterium rhizogenes) bacteria, can be obtained from a wide variety of …

The development of plant tissue (including organ and cell) cultures for the production of
secondary metabolites has been underway for more than three decades. Plant cell cultures …

Plant secondary metabolites are known to have a variety of biological activities beneficial to
human health. They are becoming more popular as a result of their unique features and …

Some carbohydrate polymers, usually oligosaccharides or polysaccharides, have great
potential as an elicitor of plant defense. However, due to the complexity and diversity of poly …

Secondary metabolites synthesized by the Solanaceous plants are of major therapeutic and
pharmaceutical importance, many of which are commonly obtained from the roots of these …

A wide variety of secondary metabolites are synthesized from primary metabolites by plants
which are used for the defense purpose. The secondary metabolites had a great scope in …

The resinous portion of the Aquilaria tree is called agarwood, a valuable non-timber product
being used as medicine and incenses in Asia, Middle East, and Europe. Driven by high …

Two lines of Calendula officinalis in vitro hairy root culture, obtained as a result of
transformation with the wild type Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain ATCC 15834, were …