Recently, plant secondary metabolites are considered as important sources of pharmaceuticals, food additives, flavours, cosmetics, and other industrial products. The accumulation of secondary metabolites in plant cell and organ cultures often occurs when cultures are subjected to varied kinds of stresses including elicitors or signal molecules. Application of exogenous jasmonic acid (JA) and methyl jasmonate (MJ) is responsible for the induction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and subsequent defence mechanisms in cultured cells and organs. It is also responsible for the induction of signal transduction, the expression of many defence genes followed by the accumulation of secondary metabolites. In this review, the application of exogenous MJ elicitation strategies on the induction of defence mechanism and secondary metabolite accumulation in cell and organ cultures is introduced and discussed. The information presented here is useful for efficient large-scale production of plant secondary metabolites by the plant cell and organ cultures.

Plant micropropagation has been adapted in the fields of agriculture, horticulture, forestry, and other related fields for large-scale production of elite plants. The use of liquid media and adoption of bioreactors have escalated the production of healthy plants. Several liquid-phase, gas-phase, temporary immersion, and other modified bioreactors have been used for plant propagation. The design, principle, operational mode, merits, and demerits of various bioreactors used for the regeneration of propagules, such as bulblets, cormlets, rhizomes, microtubers, shoots (subsequent rooting), and somatic embryos, are discussed here. In addition, various parameters that affect plant regeneration are discussed with suitable examples.

A temporary immersion system (TIS) bioreactor has been used as an efficient and cost-effective method for the in vitro propagation of many plant species. In the current study, the applicability of a TIS bioreactor for plantlet regeneration Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat., Fragaria × ananassa Duch., and Cnidium officinale Makino was studied. Shoot length, a number of leaves per regenerated shoot, fresh, and dry biomass of plantlets were optimal with the TIS compared to semi-solid and liquid immersion cultures. The leaf area in cryshanthmum, strawberry, and C. afficinale were 2.87 cm², 3.51 cm², and 1.43 cm², respectively, in the plants regenerated by TIS. The photosynthetic pigments were highest in strawberry plants grown in TIS bioreactor culture, and there was no significant difference between semi-solid and liquid culture while the highest values were obtained in C. officinale maintained in semi-solid culture. The chrysanthemum and strawberry plants showed a 100% acclimatization rate in all culture systems. C. officinale plants showed the highest survival rate at 96.9%, which were regenerated in the TIS. TIS bioreactor culture, thus, provides a convenient method that could be adopted for commercial in vitro propagation of chrysanthemum, strawberry and C. officinale plants.