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Secondary Metabolite Enhancement in Medicinal Climbers Through the Intervention of Abiotic and Biotic Elicitors

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The formation of bioactive compounds in plants, in response to the stress caused by physical factors (drought, flood, salinity, alkalinity, radiation, etc.) or wounding caused by insect, pest and microbes, is a natural process. The primary role of accumulated products is the protection of plants from the natural and induced stress, and they play a vital role in ailment healing. Although the presence of secondary metabolites in small quantity is sufficient to protect the plant body, but because of their pharmaceutical importance to deal with human and animal diseases, they warrant a huge availability; hence the ruthless collection of plant parts for the extraction leads to the depletion of plant population, even in some cases where the secondary metabolites are obtained from root or fruit parts endangering their population more severely. Thus, to potentially protect the valuable germplasm, the plant cell culture could be used as an alternative measure. Elicitation is one of the biotechnological strategies which hold the ability of enhancing secondary metabolite accumulation in plant cells and their quality production in cell suspension cultures.

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Author Rakhshanda Akhtar is thankful to UGC, for providing financial assistance in the form of Maulana Azad National Fellowship-JRF; award no. MANF-2013-14-MUS-BIH-21399

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Shahzad, A., Akhtar, R. (2016). Secondary Metabolite Enhancement in Medicinal Climbers Through the Intervention of Abiotic and Biotic Elicitors. In: Shahzad, A., Sharma, S., Siddiqui, S. (eds) Biotechnological strategies for the conservation of medicinal and ornamental climbers. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19288-8_12

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