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Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni is an industrially important plant, commonly used as a natural sweetener plant. The sweetening potential is due to the presence of calorie free steviol glycosides (SGs), which are many folds sweeter than the normal sugar. The present study introduced a rapid approach for the in vitro formation of adventitious roots (AR) and production of SGs and other antioxidant compounds in S. rebaudiana. The results showed that pre-treatment of leaf explants with notable elicitors like methyl jasmonate (Me-J; 0.5 mg/L) for 45 min, phenyl acetic acid (PAA; 1 mg/L) for 15 min and melatonine (Mel; 2 mg/L) for 15 min resulted in the highest AR induction frequencies of 88.1%, 87.6% and 86.6%, respectively in the culture media maintained in the presence of 6-benzyladenine (BA; 2 mg/L). However, when the explants were exposed to higher doses of elicitors for longer duration, a significant decline in …