Plant tissue culture technique employed for the identification and isolation of bioactive
phytocompounds has numerous industrial applications. It provides potential benefits for …

Plants are the tremendous source for the discovery of new products with medicinal
importance in drug development. Today several distinct chemicals derived from plants are …

The textbook of “Phytochemistry and bioactive compounds”, Volume 2 of the series—
Therapeutic use of Medicinal Plants and their Extracts, has been written to meet the needs of …

Plants and microbes interact with each other via different chemical signaling pathways. At
the risophere level, the microbes can secrete molecules, called elicitors, which act on their …

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 …

Pharmaceutically significant secondary metabolites or phytopharmaceuticals include
alkaloids, glycosides, flavonoids, volatile oils, tannins, resins etc. Currently, most of these …

Plants are a source of commercially important secondary metabolites. Elicitation of plant
cells in culture represents a useful biotechnological tool to improve the production of these …

Plant secondary metabolites are produced naturally in the plant system as a defense
mechanism to combat environmental stress factors. These metabolites are extensively used …

Terpenoids are a diverse class of natural products that have many functions in the plant
kingdom and in human health and nutrition. Their chemical diversity has led to the discovery …

The importance of terpenes in both nature and human application is difficult to overstate.
Basic knowledge of terpene and isoprene biosynthesis and chemistry has accelerated the …