Main description:

It highlights the synthesis, classification, biological function, medicinal applications, and an overview of the recent advancements for the enhanced production of novel secondary metabolites in plants.

It overviewed the role of induced mutation, salinity stress, Brassinosteroids impact to increase the secondary metabolic contents in plants and suggests increase in enzymatic activity in plants could be due to various point mutations which in turn could play a role at transcriptome levels.

It discussed the significant role of endophytes to enhance the contents of plant secondary metabolites.

Alternatively, it also suggests urgent need to set up the standard operating procedures using hydroponics system of cultivation for significant enhancement of secondary metabolite contents.

It enlists various in vitro techniques to enhance plant secondary metabolites contents using plant tissue culture approaches.

It systematically overviewed the state of art in biotechnological tools viz. CRISPER Cas9, and RNAi to enhance the plant secondary metabolite contents and recommend CRISPER Cas9 technology over the RNAi, ZFNs and TALENs because of its relatively simple and high precision method with easily programmable tool by changing the guide sequence of the sgRNA to any DNA sequence of interest with its capacity to recognize multiple targeted genes with very low off-target effects due to reduced CpG methylation.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Plant Secondary Metabolites-The Key Drivers of Plant's Defence Mechanisms: A General Introduction

D. Sruthi and C. Jayabaskaran

Chapter 2 Generation of Plant Mutant Lines Using Gamma Radiation with Enhanced Secondary Metabolite Contents

Lata I. Shukla, P. Vivek Vardhan, T. K. Devika, Sayan Roy and Sourav Bhatacharya

Chapter 3 Salinity Stress and Plant Secondary Metabolite Enhancement: An Overview

Bedabrata Saha, Bhaben Chowardhara, Jay Prakash Awasthi, Sanjib Kumar Panda and Kishore C.S. Panigrahi

Chapter 4 Enhancement of Plant Secondary Metabolites Using Fungal Endophytes

Touseef Hussain, Mulla Javed, Samrin Shaikh, Bilquees Tabasum, Kashif Hussain, Moh Sajid Ansari, Amir Khan and Abrar Ahmad Khan

Chapter 5 Hydroponic Cultivation Approaches to Enhance the Contents of the Secondary Metabolites in Plants

Yogesh Chandrakant Suryawanshi

Chapter 6 Tissue Culture Approaches to Enhance Plant Secondary Metabolites Production

Vishal N. Patil and Mohd. Shahnawaz

Chapter 7 Hairy Roots and Plant Secondary Metabolites Production: An Update

Sharada L. Deore, Bhushan A. Baviskar and Anjali A. Kide

Chapter 8 Brassinosteroids: The Phytohormones with Potential to Enhance the Secondary Metabolite Production in Plants

Barket Ali, Zahoor A. Wani and Mudasir Irfan Dar

Chapter 9 CRISPR-Cas9 Approaches to Enhance Contents of Plant Secondary Metabolites

Riddhi Rajyaguru, Nataraja Maheshala, Chandrashekar Mootapally, Neelam Nathani, Rukamsingh Tomar, Hiren Bhalani and Priyanka Sharma

Chapter 10 RNA Interference for Improvement of Secondary Metabolite Production in Plants

Ashutosh Kumar Rai and Pramod Wasudeo Ramteke