Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry as a Versatile Tool for Plant Metabolomics

Dear Colleagues, 

We are pleased to introduce our new Special Issue "Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry as a Versatile Tool for Plant Metabolomics". The scope of this Special Issue covers all aspects of gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) applications in plant metabolomics—from technical developments and data acquisition techniques to data interpretation approaches and post-processing by the methods of bioinformatics. In this Special Issue, we would like to address new metabolomics workflows and data processing/post-processing pipelines, which might give a deeper insight into the principal aspects of plant ageing, stress response, and other key physiological features of the plant organism. Equally important, we will consider the impact of GC-MS on metabolomics-assisted breeding and the discovery of new biologically active metabolites with prospective value as new pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.

Thus, on the one hand, we expect manuscripts exploring the application of GC-MS to comprehensive profiling of multiple metabolites, which might provide insights into to the metabolic shifts accompanying growth, development, stress response, and species- or cultivar-associated genome variations. On the other, contributions on new hardware and software developments, which might improve the efficiency of existing GC-MS-based metabolomics protocols and data interpretation pipelines, are also welcomed. Manuscripts dealing with the integration of multiple metabolomics platforms and multiomics studies are expected to be the valuable part of this Special Issue as well.

Dr. Andrej Frolov
Dr. Tatiana E. Bilova
Guest Editors

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