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Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures
Plant secondary metabolites are known to have a variety of biological activities beneficial to human health. They are becoming more popular as a result of their unique features and account for a major portion of the pharmacological industry. However, obtaining secondary metabolites directly from wil...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8398697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34451566 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10081521 |
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author | Hashim, Mariam Ahmad, Bushra Drouet, Samantha Hano, Christophe Abbasi, Bilal Haider Anjum, Sumaira |
author_facet | Hashim, Mariam Ahmad, Bushra Drouet, Samantha Hano, Christophe Abbasi, Bilal Haider Anjum, Sumaira |
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description | Plant secondary metabolites are known to have a variety of biological activities beneficial to human health. They are becoming more popular as a result of their unique features and account for a major portion of the pharmacological industry. However, obtaining secondary metabolites directly from wild plants has substantial drawbacks, such as taking a long time, posing a risk of species extinction owing to over-exploitation, and producing a limited quantity. Thus, there is a paradigm shift towards the employment of plant tissue culture techniques for the production of key secondary metabolites in vitro. Elicitation appears to be a viable method for increasing phytochemical content and improving the quality of medicinal plants and fruits and vegetables. In vitro culture elicitation activates the plant’s defense response and increases the synthesis of secondary metabolites in larger proportions, which are helpful for therapeutic purposes. In this respect, light has emerged as a unique and efficient elicitor for enhancing the in vitro production of pharmacologically important secondary metabolites. Various types of light (UV, fluorescent, and LEDs) have been found as elicitors of secondary metabolites, which are described in this review. |
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spelling | pubmed-83986972021-08-29 Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures Hashim, Mariam Ahmad, Bushra Drouet, Samantha Hano, Christophe Abbasi, Bilal Haider Anjum, Sumaira Plants (Basel) Review Plant secondary metabolites are known to have a variety of biological activities beneficial to human health. They are becoming more popular as a result of their unique features and account for a major portion of the pharmacological industry. However, obtaining secondary metabolites directly from wild plants has substantial drawbacks, such as taking a long time, posing a risk of species extinction owing to over-exploitation, and producing a limited quantity. Thus, there is a paradigm shift towards the employment of plant tissue culture techniques for the production of key secondary metabolites in vitro. Elicitation appears to be a viable method for increasing phytochemical content and improving the quality of medicinal plants and fruits and vegetables. In vitro culture elicitation activates the plant’s defense response and increases the synthesis of secondary metabolites in larger proportions, which are helpful for therapeutic purposes. In this respect, light has emerged as a unique and efficient elicitor for enhancing the in vitro production of pharmacologically important secondary metabolites. Various types of light (UV, fluorescent, and LEDs) have been found as elicitors of secondary metabolites, which are described in this review. MDPI 2021-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8398697/ /pubmed/34451566 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10081521 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Hashim, Mariam Ahmad, Bushra Drouet, Samantha Hano, Christophe Abbasi, Bilal Haider Anjum, Sumaira Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures |
title | Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures |
title_full | Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures |
title_fullStr | Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures |
title_full_unstemmed | Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures |
title_short | Comparative Effects of Different Light Sources on the Production of Key Secondary Metabolites in Plants In Vitro Cultures |
title_sort | comparative effects of different light sources on the production of key secondary metabolites in plants in vitro cultures |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8398697/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34451566 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants10081521 |
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