The book explores theoretical as well as rational information associated with elicitation as a biotechnological strategy and a potential method to produce and/or enhance the production of high value-low volume compounds in plants and other organisms. Further, the book is intended to provide a comprehensive insight into elicitation, diverse elicitors and their mechanism of action, applications, and future prospects and covers diverse phenomenon and selected case studies that a subject reader needs to know. Furthermore, an attempt has also been made to identify challenges in existing methodologies of elicitation and their feasible solutions through scientific discussions in various chapters provided by eminent research groups.

This book aids academicians, researchers and plant metabolite-based industry persons to understand the elicitor-mediated metabolic regulation in detail. It is also a reference for the students studying plant biochemical pathways and their regulation in response to environmental constraints.

Covers the diverse aspects of plant elicitation studies Advocates strategy to enhance desired secondary metabolites production Contains a dedicated section for case studies on different secondary metabolite elicitation

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Dr. Sonal Mishra has worked as a microbiologist research scientist in PfBIO Ltd, Centrum, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK and also served as visiting scientist at John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom. She pursued her PhD jointly from Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP), Lucknow and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She has completed her postdoctoral work as Dr. D. S. Kothari-Post Doctoral Fellow (UGC-DSKPDF) and SERB-National Postdoc Fellow (SERB-NPDF) at the School of Biotechnology, University of Jammu, India. Further, she also gained postdoc experience at Jawaharlal Nehru University and NIPGR, New Delhi, India. With specialization in various aspects of biotechnology, she has acquired training and experience to carry out research in diverse fields of plant biotechnology and molecular biology.

Dr. Vikas Srivastava is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany, Central University of Jammu, India and also worked as Royal Society-Newton International Fellow at John Innes Centre, Norwich, United Kingdom. He completed his PhD jointly from Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP) and Lucknow University, India. Furthermore, he pursued his postdoctoral work from the National Institute of Plant Genome Research (NIPGR), New Delhi, India. With specialization in various aspects of biotechnology, he has acquired training and experience to carry out research in the diverse field of plant biology.

Dr. Shakti Mehrotra is currently working a consultant scientist in Molecular Biology Lab, Biotech Park, Lucknow, India. She completed her PhD jointly from CSIR-CIMAP and Lucknow University, India. Furthermore, she pursued her postdoctoral work at the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow (DBT-PDF) and Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (CSIR-CIMAP, DST Young Scientist). With specialization in various aspects of biotechnology, she has acquired training and experience to carry out research in diverse field of plant biotechnology.

Inhalt

Part I: Elicitation Mechanisms and Plant responses.- Chapter 1. From Stress to Success: Mechanisms of Elicitor-Induced Secondary Metabolism.- Chapter 2. From Defense to Production: The Role of Elicitors in Enhancing Plant-Derived Secondary Metabolites for Commercial Use.- Chapter 3. Advances in Elicitor-Mediated Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell Suspensions: Factors and Mechanisms.- Chapter 4. Elicitation Based Biotechnological Interventions to Promote Hairy Root Growth and Biomass Yield.- Chapter 5. Optimizing Plant Growth in Hydroponics: The role of elicitation processes in enhancing nutrient uptake and stress resistance.- Chapter 6. Impact of elicitation strategies on arid region plants.- Chapter 7. Transcriptome Studies and Elicitation for Plant Secondary Metabolite Production.- Part II: Elicitors and Their Impact on Metabolite Biosynthesis.- Chapter 8. Methyl-jasmonate-based elicitation studies for plant based secondary metabolite production.- Chapter 9. Salicylic Acid-Based Elicitation to Regulate Plant Secondary Metabolite Production.- Chapter 10. Chitosan mediated elicitation of plant secondary metabolites.- Chapter 11. Nanoparticle-Mediated Enhancement of Plant Secondary Metabolites.- Part III: Elicitation and Production of Bioactive Compound.- Chapter 12. Enhanced biosynthesis of Podophyllotoxin using elicitation strategies.- Chapter 13. Elicitation and Enhanced Alkaloid Production from Plants.- Chapter 14. Elicitation and Their Significance on Essential Oil Production.- Chapter 15. Abiotic elicitation and their significance on plant metabolite production in hairy root culture of Withania somnifera(L.) Dunal.- Chapter 16. Enhancing saponin production through elicitation strategies.- Chapter 17. Biotic and Abiotic Elicitation for Enhanced Production of Stilbenes.- Chapter 18. Elicitation Strategies for Enhanced Microbial Production of Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs).