Abstract Bovine milk contains 3–5% of fat, of which the dominant portion (about 98%) is in
the form of triacylglycerols, whereas polar lipids such as glycerophospholipids and …

Metabolomics is a research field used to acquire comprehensive information on the
composition of a metabolite pool to provide a functional screen of the cellular state. Studies …

Background The elucidation of complex biological systems requires integration of multiple
molecular parameters. Accordingly, high throughput methods like transcriptomics …

Background Identifying genotype-phenotype links and causative genes from quantitative
trait loci (QTL) is challenging for complex agronomically important traits. To accelerate maize …

Seeds are an essential food source, providing nutrients for germination and early seedling
growth. Degradation events in the seed and the mother plant accompany seed …

Oleaginous microalgae are considered as a promising resource for the production of
biofuels. Especially diatoms arouse interest as biofuel producers since they are most …

Plant lipids have versatile applications and provide essential fatty acids in human diet.
Therefore, there has been a growing interest to better characterize the genetic basis …

Few high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
methods have been developed for the full quantitation of fatty acids from human plasma …

ABA is a plant hormone that plays crucial roles in controlling cellular and physiological
responses to osmotic stress and in developmental processes. Endogenous ABA levels are …

Understanding of complex biological systems requires the measurement, analysis and
integration of multiple compound classes of the living cell, usually determined by …