Annual Plant Reviews, Biology of Plant Metabolomics

Biology of Plant Metabolomics is an exciting new volume in
Wiley-Blackwell's highly successful Annual Plant Reviews series.
Concentrating on the biology and biological relevance of plant
metabolomics, each chapter, written by internationally-acknowledged
experts in the field from at least two different research groups,
combines a review of the existing biological results with an
extended assessment of possible future developments and the impact
that these will have on the type of research needed for the future.

Following a general introduction, this exciting volume includes
details of metabolomics of model species including Arabidopsis and
tomato. Further chapters provide in-depth coverage of abiotic
stress, data integration, systems biology, genetics, genomics,
chemometrics and biostatisitcs. Applications of plant metabolomics
in food science, plant ecology and physiology are also
comprehensively covered.

Biology of Plant Metabolomics provides cutting edge
reviews of many major aspects of this new and exciting subject. It
is an essential purchase for plant scientists, plant geneticists
and physiologists. All libraries in universities and research
establishments where biological sciences are studied and taught
should have a copy of this Annual Plant Reviews volume on their
shelves.

Autorentext

Robert Hall is Bioscience Group Leader at Plant Research
International, and Managing Director, Centre for BioSystems
Genomics, Wageningen, The Netherlands. He is also the Current
President of the International Metabolomics Society.

Zusammenfassung
Biology of Plant Metabolomics is an exciting new volume in Wiley-Blackwell's highly successful Annual Plant Reviews series. Concentrating on the biology and biological relevance of plant metabolomics, each chapter, written by internationally-acknowledged experts in the field from at least two different research groups, combines a review of the existing biological results with an extended assessment of possible future developments and the impact that these will have on the type of research needed for the future. Following a general introduction, this exciting volume includes details of metabolomics of model species including Arabidopsis and tomato. Further chapters provide in-depth coverage of abiotic stress, data integration, systems biology, genetics, genomics, chemometrics and biostatisitcs. Applications of plant metabolomics in food science, plant ecology and physiology are also comprehensively covered.

Biology of Plant Metabolomics provides cutting edge reviews of many major aspects of this new and exciting subject. It is an essential purchase for plant scientists, plant geneticists and physiologists. All libraries in universities and research establishments where biological sciences are studied and taught should have a copy of this Annual Plant Reviews volume on their shelves.

Inhalt
Contributors. Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Plant Metabolomics in a Nutshell: Potential and Future Challenges (Robert D. Hall).

1.1 The history and the goals of plant metabolomics.

1.2 The technologies.

1.3 The applications.

1.4 The bottlenecks, the potential and future challenges.

2 Metabolite Analysis and Metabolomics in the Study of Biotrophic Interactions between Plants and Microbes (John Draper, Susanne Rasmussen and Hassan Zubair).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Biotrophic phases of interactions between fungal pathogens and plant hosts.

2.3 Mutualistic plant associations with endosymbionts.

2.4 Conclusions, horizon scanning & future impact.

3 Abiotic Stress and Metabolomics (Jairus Bowne, Antony Bacic, Mark Tester and Ute Roessner).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 What is abiotic stress and how does it impact crop production?

3.3 Abiotic stress adaptation and tolerance mechanisms: molecular and physiological approaches.

3.4 Metabolomics.

3.5 Impact of abiotic stress on plant metabolism.

3.6 Integration of 'omics and physiological data.

3.7 How can technological improvements assist in data interpretation?

3.8 Where do we go from here?

4 A Role for Metabolomics in Plant Ecology (Nicole M. van Dam and Eddy van der Meijden).

4.1 A plant is never alone.

4.2 Applying metabolomics to wild plant species: yes we can!

4.3 Plant metabolomics and chemical ecology of plantinsect interactions: some success stories.

4.4 Plant metabolomics helps to advance theories in plant insect interactions.

4.5 Metabolomics for plant ecology in the future: possibilities and pitfalls.

5 Metabolomics of a Model Fruit: Tomato (Ric C.H. de Vos, Robert D. Hall and Annick Moing).

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 A few key examples of the broad relevance of tomato fruit metabolomics.

5.3 Predictions for the future.

5.4 Conclusions.

6 Metabolomics of Arabidopsis thaliana (Michael H. Beale and Michael R. Sussman).

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 The Arabidopsis metabolome.

6.3 Measuring the Arabidopsis metabolome.

6.4 Metabolomics and Arabidopsis molecular plant physiology.

6.5 Metabolomics in Arabidopsis functional genomics.

6.6 Genetical metabolomics.

6.7 Forward look.

7 Crops and Tasty, Nutritious Food How Can Metabolomics Help? (Derek Stewart, Louise V.T. Shepherd, Robert D. Hall and Paul D. Fraser).

7.1 Every food chain begins with plants.

7.2 Potato and tomato both fresh and processed.

7.3 Grain crops.

7.4 Soft fruit metabolomics.

7.5 Metabolomics and our most important beverages coffee, tea and wine.

7.6 Food product contamination and adulteration.

7.7 Metabolite profiling technologies used to evaluate crop safety.

7.8 The future importance of metabolomics in crop research.

8 Genetics, Genomics and Metabolomics (Alisdair R. Fernie and Joost J.B. Keurentjes).

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 Genetic understanding of metabolism in the pre-genomics era.

8.3 Genetic analysis of natural variance in plants RILs and NILs.

8.4 Analysis of crop natural variance and broad genetic populations.

8.5 Linking genotypic and phenotypic diversity.

8.6 Finding the mechanisms underlying the QTL.

8.7 Integration of omic data with physiological traits.

8.8 Metabolomics aiding the understanding of quantitative genetics.

8.9 Perspective of metabolomics assisted breeding.

8.10 Concluding remarks and perspective.

9 Data Integration, Metabolic Networks and Systems Biology (Henning Redestig, Jedrzej Szymanski, Masami Y. Hirai, Joachim Selbig, Lothar Willmitzer, Zoran Nikoloski and Kazuki Saito). <p&g...