Metabolomics is a valuable approach used to acquire comprehensive information about the set of metabolites in a cell or tissue, enabling a functional screen of the cellular activities in biological systems. Although metabolomics provides a more immediate and dynamic picture of phenotypes in comparison to the other omics, it is also the most complicated to measure because no single analytical technology can capture the extraordinary complexity of metabolite diversity in terms of structure and physical properties. Metabolomics has been extensively employed for a wide range of applications in plant science, which will be described in detail in this chapter. Among them, metabolomics is used for discriminating patterns of plant responses to genetic and environmental perturbations, as diagnostics and prediction tool to elucidate the function of genes for important and complex agronomic traits in crop species, and flux measurements are used to dissect the structure and regulatory properties of metabolic networks.

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80352-0_5DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

plant science
8
contribution metabolomics
4
metabolomics systems
4
systems biology
4
biology current
4
current applications
4
applications bridging
4
bridging genotype
4
genotype phenotype
4
phenotype plant
4

Similar Publications

The use of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in agriculture is increasingly recognized as a sustainable method to boost crop yields, reduce chemical fertilizer use, and improve soil health. However, the microbial mechanisms by which inoculation with nitrogen-fixing bacteria enhance rice production remain unclear. In this study, rice seedlings were inoculated with the nitrogen-fixing bacterium R3 (Herbaspirillum) at the rhizosphere during the seedling stage in a pot experiment using paddy soil.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Significance of Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides (RFOs) metabolism in plants.

Adv Biotechnol (Singap)

March 2024

School of Life Sciences, Innovative Center of Molecular Genetics and Evolution, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.

Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides (RFOs) are a kind of polysaccharide containing D-galactose, and they widely exist in higher plants. Synthesis of RFOs begins with galactinol synthase (GolS; EC 2.4.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Optimization of central carbon metabolism by Warburg effect of human cancer cell improves triterpenes biosynthesis in yeast.

Adv Biotechnol (Singap)

October 2023

Institute of Medical Plant Physiology and Ecology, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510006, China.

Optimizing central carbon metabolism (CCM) represents an attractive and challenging strategy to improve the biosynthesis of valuable chemicals due to the complex regulation of the CCM in yeast. In this study, we triggered the similar Warburg effect of cancer cells in yeast strains by introducing the human hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) complex, which regulated the expression of numerous enzymes involved in CCM and redirected the metabolic flux from glycolysis to tricarboxylic acid cycle. This redirection promoted the production of squalene to a 2.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Importance of pre-mRNA splicing and its study tools in plants.

Adv Biotechnol (Singap)

February 2024

National Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Center for Research and Development of Fine Chemicals, Guizhou University, Guiyang, China.

Alternative splicing (AS) significantly enriches the diversity of transcriptomes and proteomes, playing a pivotal role in the physiology and development of eukaryotic organisms. With the continuous advancement of high-throughput sequencing technologies, an increasing number of novel transcript isoforms, along with factors related to splicing and their associated functions, are being unveiled. In this review, we succinctly summarize and compare the different splicing mechanisms across prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Acetylation modification in the regulation of macroautophagy.

Adv Biotechnol (Singap)

June 2024

Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Plant Genetic Engineering and Molecular Design, Institute of Plant and Food Science, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China.

Macroautophagy, commonly referred to as autophagy, is an evolutionarily conserved cellular process that plays a crucial role in maintaining cellular homeostasis. It orchestrates the delivery of dysfunctional or surplus cellular materials to the vacuole or lysosome for degradation and recycling, particularly during adverse conditions. Over the past few decades, research has unveiled intricate regulatory mechanisms governing autophagy through various post-translational modifications (PTMs).

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!