Gene

Cell biology

Ecology

Biology

Abiotic component

Abiotic stress

Animal science

Metabolism

Biochemistry

Botany

Heat stress

Metabolic pathway

Secondary metabolism

Bioinformatics

Plant development

Biosynthesis

Plant growth

Plant metabolism

Fight-or-flight response

Metabolomics

Biological Research

In the growth condition(s) of plants, numerous secondary metabolites (SMs) are produced by them to serve variety of cellular functions essential for physiological processes, and recent increasing evidences have implicated stress and defense response signaling in their production. The type and concentration(s) of secondary molecule(s) produced by a plant are determined by the species, genotype, physiology, developmental stage and environmental factors during growth. This suggests the physiological adaptive responses employed by various plant taxonomic groups in coping with the stress and defensive stimuli. The past recent decades had witnessed renewed interest to study abiotic factors that influence secondary metabolism during in vitro and in vivo growth of plants. Application of molecular biology tools and techniques are facilitating understanding the signaling processes and pathways involved in the SMs production at subcellular, cellular, organ and whole plant systems during in vivo and in vitro growth, with application in metabolic engineering of biosynthetic pathways intermediates.

Stress and defense responses in plant secondary metabolites production