Metabolomics Applications in Agriculture, Health and the Environment
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Advances in Metabolomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2026 | Viewed by 187
Editor
Interests: metabolomics; plant hormones; natural products; secondary metabolites; microbiome
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue highlights the application of metabolomics as a powerful analytical and systems-level approach to address challenges across agriculture, human and animal health, and environmental science. By enabling the comprehensive profiling of small molecules, metabolomics provides critical insights into biological responses to environmental conditions, chemical exposures, and physiological states.
The issue welcomes contributions employing targeted and untargeted metabolomics, primarily using mass spectrometry- and NMR-based platforms, to investigate topics such as crop and livestock health, food quality and safety, environmental contaminants, exposure assessment, toxicology, and host–microbiome interactions. Emphasis is placed on studies that link chemical composition with biological function, supporting improved risk assessment, sustainability, and translational outcomes across interconnected agro-environmental and health systems.
Dr. Priyanka Reddy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metabolomics
- environmental exposure
- agricultural systems
- biomarker discovery
- chemical pheno-typing
- systems biology
- translational omics
- functional metabolomics
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