Metabolomics in Plant Environmental Physiology

Dear Colleagues,

Plants acclimate to environmental changes, reprogramming their development, physiology, and metabolism to improve their fitness and allow their survival, especially under stressful conditions. A complete understanding of plant interaction with the environment is obtained integrating morphophysiological and molecular studies. In particular, the use of multiple approaches (the so-called systems biology) allows the investigation of the regulatory networks activated by plants in response to external factors.

Over the past decade, plant metabolomics has become a powerful tool, thanks to the recent advances in mass spectrometry, NMR technology, and bioinformatics. The principal advantage of the metabolomic approach is that metabolites are measured in a nontargeted manner, offering the possibility to study plant responses to environmental stresses in a more holistic way. The metabolite pool includes a wide range of compounds with diverse properties inside the plant, from carbohydrates, organic and amino acids to secondary metabolites.

This Special Issue is devoted to “Metabolomics in Plant Environmental Physiology”, and topics will include (but are not restricted to) the following:

• Target and un-target analysis of primary and secondary metabolism;
• Stress physiology and biochemistry;
• Eco-metabolomics;
• Environmental metabolomics.

Dr. Cecilia Brunetti
Dr. Antonella Gori
Guest Editors

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