Secondary compound accumulation improvement

Secondary Compound Accumulation in Plants—The Application of Plant Biotechnology to Plant Improvement... 

Despite of 150-year s history of vulcanization process, it is impossible to consider that fundamental and applied researches in direction of vulcanization systems perfection are completed. For today one of the ways of rubbers properties improvement is the synthesis and application of the new chemicals-additives, including, vulcanization active, that is connected, first of all, with reduction of global stocks of zinc ores as basic raw material for reception of traditional activator - zinc oxide. Besides, modem increase of industrial potential and the accumulation of big quantity wastes derivate the problems of ecological character, which require the emergency decision. Therefore creation of resourcesaving technologies of the new compounds reception from products of secondary raw material processing has paramount importance. 

The term elicitor refers to chemicals from various sources, biotic or abiotic, as well as physical factors, that can trigger a response in living organisms resulting in a high accumulation of secondary metabolites. Therefore, elicitors are usefiil tools for improving the production of plant valuable compounds ([36] and references therein). The effectiveness of elicitation as a tool to enhance the production of secondary metabolites depends on a complex interaction between the elicitor and the plant cell. There is evidence that the same elicitor can stimulate secondary metabolism in different cell cultures and that certain plant cultures are responsive to diverse elicitors. Treatment of a particular plant cell culture with different elicitors will result in the accumulation of a particular class of compounds, since these are specific of each plant culture. Although the class of metabolite depends on the plant species, the kinetics of induction or accumulation levels can vary with different elicitors. 

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