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. 2021:1346:91-105.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-80352-0_5.

The Contribution of Metabolomics to Systems Biology: Current Applications Bridging Genotype and Phenotype in Plant Science

Marina C M Martins  1 , Valeria Mafra  2 , Carolina C Monte-Bello  3   4   5 , Camila Caldana  5
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The Contribution of Metabolomics to Systems Biology: Current Applications Bridging Genotype and Phenotype in Plant Science

Marina C M Martins et al. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Flux; Metabolism; Metabolites; Networks; Phenotype.

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