In vitro strategies for the enhancement of secondary metabolite production in plants: a review

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Table 2 Abiotic elicitor and secondary metabolites production

S. no	Abiotic elicitor	Plant name	Product	References
1	Na-alginate	Glycyrrhiza echinate	Echinatin	Ayabe et al. (1986)
2	Metal ions: Al³⁺, Cr³⁺, Co²⁺, Ni²⁺, Cu²⁺, Zn²⁺	Datura stramonium	Sesquiterpenoids	Threlfall and Whitehead (1988)
3	Salicylic acid, Ca²⁺	Daucus carota	Chitinase	Muller et al. (1994)
4	Cu ²⁺, Cd ²⁺	Atropa belladonna	Tropane alkaloids	Lee et al. (1998)
5	Oxidative stress, amino acid starvation	Arabidopsis	Camalexin	Zhao et al. (1998)
6	Copper sulfate	Hyoscyamus albus	Phytoalexin	Mader (1999)
7	UV stress	Glycyrrhiza uralensis	Glycyrrhizin	Afreen et al. (2005)
8	Diethyl amino ethyl dichloro phenyl ether	Catharanthus roseus	Indole alkaloids	Lee and Rogce (2006)