title: Proteomics dissection of plant responses to mineral nutrient deficiency.
abstract: Plants require at least 17 essential nutrients to complete their life cycle. Except for carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, other essential nutrients are mineral nutrients, which are mainly acquired from soils by roots. In natural soils, the availability of most essential mineral nutrients is very low and hard to meet the demand of plants. Developing crops with high nutrient efficiency is essential for sustainable agriculture, which requires more understandings of crop responses to mineral nutrient deficiency. Proteomic techniques provide a crucial and complementary tool to dissect molecular mechanisms underlying crop adaptation to mineral nutrient deficiency in the rapidly processing postgenome era. This review gives a comparative overview about identification of mineral nutrient deficiency responsive proteins using proteomic analysis, and discusses the current status for crop proteomics and its challenges to be integrated into systems biology approaches for developing crops with high mineral nutrient efficiency.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Subtropical Agro-bioresources, Root Biology Center, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Cuiyue
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liang
authors.forename: Jiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.forename: Hong
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liao
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000378:metabolism*; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D018977:Micronutrients / Q000378:metabolism; D008903:Minerals / Q000378:metabolism*; D010940:Plant Proteins / Q000378:metabolism*; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000378:metabolism; D020543:Proteome / Q000378:metabolism*; D040901:Proteomics; D013312:Stress, Physiological
chemical_list: D018977:Micronutrients; D008903:Minerals; D010940:Plant Proteins; D020543:Proteome