Species from the genus Ocimum L.(basil) are among the most cultivated plants due to their
large content of secondary metabolites, in particular essential oils and phenolic compounds …

Medicinal plants are rich sources of bioactive compounds widely used as medicaments,
food additives, perfumes, and agrochemicals. These secondary compounds are produced …

Ocimum basilicum L. var. purpurascens is an enriched reservoir of pharmaceutically
important compounds with plenty of health and therapeutic attributes such as phenolic acids …

This study has developed an innovative method for the production of secondary metabolites
starting from Cydonia oblonga Mill (quince) pulp callus culture. The qualitative and …

Callus elicitation is advantageous for metabolite production due to its ability to increase
yield, provide controllable conditions, and allow for genetic manipulation, offering a …

Salt stress can cause several damages to photosynthetic processes of Ocimum basilicum;
however, it can increase the essential oil content as an acclimatization strategy to stress …

The increased need for natural products leads to the expansion of new techniques and
creates the necessity for the implementation of these techniques to adequately respond to …

Aims Due to the lack of experimental databases, together with the chemical complexity and
the dynamic nature of plants' metabolome, most of the metabolites in complex biological …

Somatic embryogenesis is currently the most promising technique for the large-scale
production and breeding of conifer species. Nonetheless, the low explant induction rate in …

Optimization of medium components for each species is critically important to produce
valuable bioactive compounds at high yields in plant tissue and organ culture methods …