Plants need to counter continuous threats posed by the environment, such as pathogen
attacks (fungi, viruses, insects, nematodes) and harsh physical conditions (drought, salinity …

Higher plants undergo a variety of stresses and to combat those stresses they acclimatize
themselves by producing diverse secondary metabolites. These secondary metabolites also …

Thousands of structurally and chemically diverse phytochemicals called secondary
metabolites are ubiquitously found in the plant kingdom. They are not essential for plant …

Secondary metabolites are incontestably key specialized molecules with proven health-
promoting effects on human beings. Naturally synthesized secondary metabolites are …

Plant secondary metabolites are bioactive scaffolds that are crucial for plant survival in the
environment and to maintain a defense mechanism from predators. These compounds are …

Plant secondary metabolites are having the great application in human health and
nutritional aspect. Plant cell and organ culture systems are feasible option for the production …

Plants have long been exploited as a sustainable source of food, flavors, agrochemicals,
colors, therapeutic proteins, bioactive compounds, and stem cell production. However, plant …

Plant secondary biosynthetic pathways are exceedingly inducible by elicitors and facilitate
enhanced metabolite production using plant cell tissue and organ cultures. Elicitors can …

The saponins are a diverse class of natural products, with a broad scale distribution across
different plant species. Chemically characterized as triterpenoid glycosides, they posses a …

Secondary metabolites are the bioactive compounds of plants which have no role in the
development process but are needed for defense purposes. Their synthesis takes place …