“…Salacia species contain unique phytochemicals like salcinol, Kotanol (Hiromi and Sei Ozaki, 2008), Mangiferin (Jaykumar et al, 2015) which are of pharmaceutical value in the treatment of many ailments like diabetes (Jeyakodi et al, 2016), kidney disorder, anti cholesterolemia (Singh et al, 2015), rheumatism, asthma (Romero-Pérez et al, 2016) and cancer (Musini et al, 2015). 36 Elicitors are the signal molecules when applied to plants induce the synthesis of secondary metabolites and offers protections from pathogens (Manivannan et al, 2016). Elicitor are of two types, biotic (biological substance viz., metabolites, proteins, carbohydrates obtain from microbes, for example: Yeast, Fungal spores, mycelial cell wall) and abiotic (chemicals like salicyclic acid, jasmonic acid, abscisic acid, etc) (Giridhar and Parimalan, 2010;Saini et al, 2013;Ramakrishna and Ravishankar, 2011).…”