Our agricultural systems are now in urgent need to secure food for a growing world
population. To meet this challenge, we need a better characterization of plant genetic and …

One of the long-standing goals in plant biology has been to link genotypic variation to
natural variation in plant development and adaptive traits. From recent studies it has become …

Global agriculture is facing major challenges to ensure global food security, such as the
need to breed high-yielding crops adapted to future climates and the identification of …

The past decade has seen increased interest from the scientific community, and particularly
plant biologists, in integrating metabolic approaches into research aimed at unraveling …

Next-generation genomics holds great potential in the study of plant phenotypic variation.
With several crop reference genomes now available, the affordable costs of de novo …

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 …

The narrow genetic basis of many crops combined with restrictions on the commercial use of
genetically modified plants, has led to a surge of interest in exploring natural biodiversity as …

Metabolomics is an emerging branch of “omics” and it involves identification and
quantification of metabolites and chemical footprints of cellular regulatory processes in …

In recent years, generation of large‐scale data from genome, transcriptome, proteome,
metabolome, epigenome, and others, has become routine in several plant species. Most of …

Metabolomics approaches enable the parallel assessment of the levels of a broad range of
metabolites and have been documented to have great value in both phenotyping and …