Multiple “omics” approaches have emerged as successful technologies for plant systems
over the last few decades. Advances in next-generation sequencing (NGS) have paved a …

Background Metabolomics aims to identify the changes in endogenous metabolites of
biological systems in response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This is accomplished …

Resveratrol is one of the most widely studied polyphenols and it has been assigned a
plethora of metabolic effects with potential health benefits. Given its low bioavailability and …

The gut microbiota is composed of a huge number of different bacteria, that produce a large
amount of compounds playing a key role in microbe selection and in the construction of a …

A database (DB) describing the relationships between species and their metabolites would
be useful for metabolomics research, because it targets systematic analysis of enormous …

The choice of sample-preparation method is extremely important in metabolomic studies
because it affects both the observed metabolite content and biological interpretation of the …

Metabolomics now plays a significant role in fundamental plant biology and applied
biotechnology. Plants collectively produce a huge array of chemicals, far more than are …

Plant responses to abiotic stresses are very complex phenomena with individual
characteristics for various species. Abiotic stresses (eg drought, salinity, flooding, cold, heat …

During the past few decades, the direct analysis of metabolic intermediates in biological
samples has greatly improved the understanding of metabolic processes. The most used …

Fingerprinting methods describe a variety of analytical methods that provide analytical
signals related to the composition of foodstuffs in a non-selective way such as by collecting a …