Plants are regarded as resources to obtain various industrially important compounds such as pharmaceutical, agrochemical and aromatic products which are produced in their roots, stem, leaves and other aerial parts and mostly extracted from field-grown plants. However, the over-exploitation of plants for secondary metabolites often leads to becoming endangered and in threat of extinction. Owing to these constraints, in vitro culture techniques provide an alternative to overcome problems associated with field production and promotes their conservation. The use of elicitation for the enhancement of secondary metabolite production is gaining importance. Elicitation is defined as an increased production of biomass and secondary metabolites in both in vitro and ex vivo grown plants, subjected to the exposure of different elicitors. The process of elicitation is influenced by culture conditions like elicitor concentration, duration, age and composition of culture. So, this review emphasises the role of these in vitro culture conditions on secondary metabolite production and to pave way for their enhanced in vitro production. Also discussed are various elicitor responses on different biochemical and molecular pathways to elucidate the mechanism of action of jasmonic acid and methyl jasmonate in secondary metabolite production.

植物被视为获得各种重要工业化合物的资源，例如在其根，茎，叶和其他地上部分产生的药物，主要是从田间种植的植物中提取的，这些药物包括农药，农用化学品和芳香产品。但是，植物对次生代谢物的过度开发经常导致濒临灭绝和灭绝的危险。由于这些限制，体外培养技术为克服与田间生产有关的问题提供了一种替代方法，并促进了其保存。激发用于增强次级代谢产物产生的用途变得越来越重要。激发被定义为在体外和离体中增加的生物量和次生代谢产物的产生生长的植物，要经受不同引发剂的照射。诱导过程受培养条件的影响，例如诱导剂浓度，持续时间，年龄和培养成分。因此，本综述强调了这些体外培养条件对次生代谢产物产生的作用，并为它们在体外产生的增强铺平了道路。还讨论了在不同生物化学和分子途径上的各种激发子反应，以阐明茉莉酸和茉莉酸甲酯在次级代谢产物生产中的作用机理。