Plant Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis and Transcriptional Regulation in Response to Biotic and Abiotic Stress Conditions

Plant secondary metabolites (SMs) play important roles in plant survival and creating ecological connections between other species. In addition to providing a variety of valuable natural products, help protect plants against pathogenic attacks environmental stresses. Given their sessile nature, must themselves from such situations through accumulation these bioactive compounds. Indeed, act as herbivore deterrents, barriers pathogen invasion, mitigators oxidative stress. The SMs are highly dependent on factors light, temperature, soil water, fertility, salinity. For most plants, change an individual factor can alter the content even if remain constant. this review, we focus how affect during both biotic abiotic stress conditions. Furthermore, discuss application elicitors culture systems well stimulating effects metabolites. Specifically, shikimate pathway aromatic amino acids produced pathway, which precursors range including terpenoids, alkaloids, sulfur- nitrogen-containing We also detail biosynthesis is altered by several genes related metabolite pathways. Genes responsible for various species conditions regulated transcriptional WRKY, MYB, AP2/ERF, bZIP, bHLH, NAC, discussed here.