Role of Metabolomes for Plant Health
A special issue of Horticulturae (ISSN 2311-7524). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinals, Herbs, and Specialty Crops".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 5303
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant foods and nutrition; metabolomics; analytical chemistry; chromatography; sample preparation; mass spectrometry; tissue culture; plant pathology; microbe-plant interactions; plant defense mechanisms
Special Issue Information
Metabolomics in plant research is gaining tremendous attention due to its natural, nutritional, and functional importance for promotion of human health. Moreover, metabolomics also plays a key role in plants, such as to attract pollinators, repel herbivores, combat microbial pathogens, provide protection from environmental stresses, as well as performing other physiological processes. Metabolites and their concentrations, unlike other “omics” (genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics), directly reflect the biochemical activity and state of cells or tissues. An estimated amount of 200,000 metabolites across the plant kingdom have been found, which has enabled plants to be regarded as a natural medicine. The chemistry of plants is very complex in nature due to various metabolic reactions, such as binding, dissociation, degradation, modification, and transport from one part to the other. These observations emphasize the need to undergo further metabolomics study to better understand the role of metabolomes in plants.
Dr. Awraris Derbie Assefa
Dr. Minaleshewa Atilabachew
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- plant physiology
- metabolic reactions
- plant–microbe interactions
- plant defense mechanisms
- environmental stress
- plant reproduction
- microbial pathogens
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