Impacts of methyl jasmonate and phenyl acetic acid on biomass accumulation and antioxidant potential in adventitious roots of Ajuga bracteosa Wall ex Benth., a high valued endangered medicinal plant

• Published in: Physiology and molecular biology of plants Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 229 - 237
• Main Authors: Saeed, Sabahat, Ali, Huma, Khan, Tariq, Kayani, Waqas, Khan, Mubarak Ali
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi Springer India 2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acetic acid; Antioxidants; Biological and Medical Physics; Biomass; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biophysics; Cell Biology; Endangered plants; Flavonoids; Life Sciences; Medicinal plants; Metabolites; Methyl jasmonate; Phenolic compounds; Phenols; Plant Physiology; Plant Sciences; Research Article; Roots; Scavenging; Secondary metabolites; Stationary phase; Elicitation; Adventitious roots; Phenyl Acetic Acid; Phenolics; Methyl jasmonate; Ajuga

Ajuga bracteosa is a medicinally important plant globally used in the folk medicine against many serious ailments. In the present study, effects of two significant elicitors, methyl jasmonate (Me-J) and phenyl acetic acid (PAA) were studied on growth parameters, secondary metabolites production, and...