title: Metabolomics, a Powerful Tool for Agricultural Research.
abstract: Metabolomics, which is based mainly on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), gas-chromatography (GC) or liquid-chromatography (LC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) analytical technologies to systematically acquire the qualitative and quantitative information of low-molecular-mass endogenous metabolites, provides a direct snapshot of the physiological condition in biological samples. As complements to transcriptomics and proteomics, it has played pivotal roles in agricultural and food science research. In this review, we discuss the capacities of NMR, GC/LC-MS in the acquisition of plant metabolome, and address the potential promise and diverse applications of metabolomics, particularly lipidomics, to investigate the responses ofArabidopsis thaliana, a primary plant model for agricultural research, to environmental stressors including heat, freezing, drought, and salinity.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. tianhe@genetics.ac.cn.
authors.forename: He
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tian
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. smlam@genetics.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Sin Man
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. ghshui@genetics.ac.cn.
authors.forename: Guanghou
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shui
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D055442:Metabolome; D055432:Metabolomics; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D012106:Research; D013312:Stress, Physiological
keywords: Arabidopsis; MS; NMR; lipidomics; metabolomics; stresses