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When callus cultures treated with 0.001 mM phenyl alanine (Ph), a slight increase in flavonoids content reached 1.17 folds, while treated suspension reached maximum level after 60 hours. Methyl jasmonate (MJ; 150 µM) increased flavonoids concentration 4 times for callus and 2.3 times for suspension. Determination of phenolics for elicited suspension showed an increase of 2.3 (Y), 2.5 (Ph) and 1.3 (MJ) times. The obtained results favored the use of yeast extract for high productivity and viability of cell lines.enUniversity of Callus and suspension cultures, elicitors, flavonoids, Iphiona mucronata, methyl jasmonate, phenolics, yeastArticlehttps://doi.org/