Plant Metabolomics

Hardback  347 pp  ISBN 3540297812      £138.00

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.

Written for researchers, industry

Contents

Section I Analytical Technology

• I.1 GasChromatographyMass Spectrometry,J. Kopka
• I.2 Current Status and Forward Looking Thoughts on LC/MSMetabolomics ,L.W. Sumner
• I.3 Plant Metabolomics Strategies Based upon Quadrupole Time of FlightMass Spectrometry (QTOF-MS), H.A. Verhoeven, C.H. Ric de Vos, R.J. Bino, and R.D. Hall
• I.4 CapillaryHPLC, T. Ikegami, E. Fukusaki, and N. Tanaka
• I.5 Capillary HPLC Coupled to Electrospray Ionization QuadrupoleTime-of-flightMass Spectrometry , S. Clemens, C. Böttcher, M. Franz, E.Willscher, E. v. Roepenack-Lahaye, and D. Scheel
• I.6 NMR Spectroscopy in Plant Metabolomics, J.L.Ward and M.H. Beale
• I.7 Hetero-nuclearNMR-basedMetabolomics, J. Kikuchi and T. Hirayama

Section II Bioinformatics

• II.1 Bioinformatics Approaches to Integrate Metabolomics andOther Systems BiologyData, B. Mehrotra and P. Mendes
• II.2 Chemometrics inMetabolomics -An Introduction, J.Trygg, J.Gullberg, A.I. Johansson,P. Jonsson, andT.Moritz
• II.3 Map Editor for the Atomic Reconstruction of Metabolism (ARM) , M. Arita, Y. Fujiwara, and Y. Nakanishi
• II.4 AraCyc: Overview of an Arabidopsis Metabolism Database and itsApplications for Plant Research, S.Y. Rhee, P. Zhang, H. Foerster, and C. Tissier
• II.5 KaPPA-View: A Tool for Integrating Transcriptomic andMetabolomicData on PlantMetabolic PathwayMaps, T. Tokimatsu, N. Sakurai, H. Suzuki, and D. Shibata
• II.6 KNApSAcK: A Comprehensive Species-Metabolite RelationshipDatabase, Y. Shinbo, Y. Nakamura, M. Altaf-Ul-Amin, H. Asahi, K. Kurokawa, M. Arita, K. Saito, D. Ohta, D. Shibata, and S. Kanaya

Section III Applications

• III.1 Systems Biology: A Renaissance of the Top-down Approach for PlantAnalysis, F. Carrari, N. Schauer, L.Willmitzer, and A.R. Fernie
• III.2 Systems-based Analysis of Plant Metabolism by Integration of Metabolomicswith Transcriptomics, M.Y. Hirai, T. Tohge, and K. Saito
• III.3 Targeted Profiling of Fatty Acids and Related Metabolites, T.R. Larson and I.A. Graham
• III.4 Metabolic Profiling and Quantification of Carotenoids andRelated Isoprenoids inCrop Plants , P.D. Fraser and P.M. Bramley
• III.5 Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways, R.A. Dixon, L. Achnine, B.E. Deavours, and M. Naoumkina
• III.6 Metabolomic Analysis of Catharanthus roseus Using NMRand PrincipalComponentAnalysis, H.K. Kim, Y.H. Choi, and R. Verpoorte
• III.7 Metabolomics of Plant Secondary Compounds: Profiling of Catharanthus CellCultures, M. Oresi`c, H. Rischer, and K.-M. Oksman-Caldentey
• III.8 The Taxus Metabolome and the Elucidation of the Taxol€ Biosynthetic Pathway in Cell Suspension Cultures, R.E.B. Ketchum and R.B. Croteau
• III.10 Plant Metabolite Profiling for Industrial Applications, R.N. Trethewey