Chemical elicitors versus secondary metabolite production in vitro using plant cell, tissue and organ cultures: recent trends and a sky eye view appraisal

Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Giri, Charu Chandra ^a   Zaheer, Mohd ^a  

^a OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Culture systems; Elicitation; Mode of action; Overview; Yield enhancement

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; CELL CULTURE; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; ETHYLENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; HEAVY METALS; PLANT CELL CULTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SALICYLIC ACID; SYNTHETIC METALS; TISSUE;

CULTURE SYSTEMS; ELICITATION; MODE OF ACTION; OVERVIEW; YIELD ENHANCEMENT;

METABOLITES;

EID: 84985021302     PISSN: 01676857     EISSN: 15735044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11240-016-0985-6     Document Type: Review

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