Advances in plant metabolomics = 식물 대사체 연구의 진보

Abstract

Plant metabolomics is a plant biology field for identifying all of the metabolites found in a certain plant cell, tissue, organ, or whole plant in a given time and conditions and for studying changes in metabolic profiling as time goes or conditions change. Metabolomics is one of the most recently developed omics for holistic approach to biology and is a kind of systems biology. For holistic approach, metabolomics frequently uses chemometrics or multivariate statistical analysis of metabolic profillings. In plant biology, metabolomics is useful to determine functions of genes often in combination with DNA microarrays by analyzing tagged mutants of the model plants Arabidopsis and rice. This review paper attempted to introduce basic concepts of metabolomics and practical uses of multivariate statistical analysis of metabolic profiling obtained by 1H NMR and Fourier transform infrared spectrometry.