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

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 …

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

Alkaloids are nitrogen-containing natural products found in bacteria, fungi, animals, and
plants with complex and diverse structures. The widespread distribution of alkaloids along …

Plants are regarded as resources to obtain various industrially important compounds such
as pharmaceutical, agrochemical and aromatic products which are produced in their roots …

Belonging to family Solanaceae, genus Datura is widely distributed all over the world and
famous for its narcosis and acesodyne in ancient China. And Datura is also annoying due to …

Plants are a rich source of valuable secondary metabolites. Plant cell culture technologies
developed in the past as possible tools for secondary metabolites production. In most cases …

Datura stramonium L., a wild-growing plant of the Solanaceae family, is widely distributed
and easily accessible. It contains a variety of toxic tropane alkaloids such as atropine …

This study investigated the effects of different concentrations of two elicitors, namely chitosan
(CHT)(25 and 50 mg L− 1) and salicylic acid (SA)(50 and 100 mg L− 1) on the production of …

Hyoscyamine (atropine) and scopolamine are the predominant tropane alkaloids in the
Datura genus, occurring in all plant organs. The assessment of the alkaloid content of …