With this review article, it is intended to describe the main
advantages of using plant tissue culture to produce high valuable
bioactive compounds, dealing in particularly with phenolic compounds
and their bioactive properties. Therefore, the production of
these secondary metabolites in plant tissues and the biosynthetic
routes involved in that production will be described. Furthermore,
phenolic extracts and individual compounds produced by in vitro
techniques will be revised as well as the elicitation techniques used
to enhance their production.