Metabolomics - which deals with all metabolites of an organism - is a rapidly-emerging sector of post-genome research fields. It plays significant roles in a variety of fields from medicine to agriculture and holds a fundamental position in functional genomics studies and their application in plant biotechnology.

This volume comprehensively covers plant metabolomics for the first time. The chapters offer cutting-edge information on analytical technology, bioinformatics and applications. They were all written by leading researchers who have been directly involved in plant metabolomics research throughout the world. Up-to-date information and future developments are described, thereby producing a volume which is a landmark of plant metabolomics research and a beneficial guideline to graduate students and researchers in academia, industry, and technology transfer organizations in all plant science fields.

Analytical Technology

Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
Current Status and Forward Looking Thoughts on LC/MS Metabolomics
Plant Metabolomics Strategies Based upon Quadrupole Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (QTOF-MS)
Capillary HPLC
Capillary HPLC Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Quadrupole Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry
NMR Spectroscopy in Plant Metabolomics
Hetero-nuclear NMR-based Metabolomics
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Approaches to Integrate Metabolomics and Other Systems Biology Data
Chemometrics in Metabolomics - An Introduction
Map Editor for the Atomic Reconstruction of Metabolism (ARM)
AraCyc: Overview of an Arabidopsis Metabolism Database and its Applications for Plant Research
KaPPA-View: A Tool for Integrating Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Data on Plant Metabolic Pathway Maps
KNApSAcK: A Comprehensive Species-Metabolite Relationship Database
Applications
Systems Biology: A Renaissance of the Top-down Approach for Plant Analysis
Systems-based Analysis of Plant Metabolism by Integration of Metabolomics with Transcriptomics
Targeted Profiling of Fatty Acids and Related Metabolites
Metabolic Profiling and Quantification of Carotenoids and Related Isoprenoids in Crop Plants
Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways
Metabolomic Analysis of Catharanthus roseus Using NMR and Principal Component Analysis
Metabolomics of Plant Secondary Compounds: Profiling of Catharanthus Cell Cultures
The Taxus Metabolome and the Elucidation of the Taxol® Biosynthetic Pathway in Cell Suspension Cultures
The Use of Non-targeted Metabolomics in Plant Science
Plant Metabolite Profiling for Industrial Applications.