Extensive efforts have been made to fortify essential amino acids and boost nutrition in
plants, but unintended effects on growth and physiology are also observed. Understanding …

The term metabolome was coined in 1998, by analogy to genome, transcriptome and
proteome. The first research papers using the terms metabolomics, metabonomics …

The sessile lifestyle of plants requires them to cope with stresses in situ. Plants overcome
abiotic stresses by altering structure/morphology, and in some extreme conditions, by …

Plants have served as sources providing humans with metabolites for food and nutrition,
biomaterials for living, and treatment for pain and disease. Plants produce a huge array of …

With the availability of DNA-based molecular markers during early 1980s and that of
sophisticated statistical tools in late 1980s and later, it became possible to identify genomic …

Introduction Metabolomics has become a crucial part of systems biology; however, data
analysis is still often undertaken in a reductionist way focusing on changes in individual …

Plant metabolic studies have traditionally focused on the role and regulation of the enzymes
catalyzing key reactions within specific pathways. Within the past 20 years, reverse genetic …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified loci linked to hundreds of traits in
many different species. Yet, because linkage equilibrium implicates a broad region …

Amino acids play vital roles in the central metabolism of seeds. They are primarily utilized for
the synthesis of seed-storage proteins, but also serve as precursors for the biosynthesis of …

Low temperature affects seed germination in plants, and low-temperature germination (LTG)
is an important agronomic trait. Natural variation of LTG has been reported in rice, but the …