Plants as immovable organisms sense the stressors in their environment and respond to
them by means of dedicated stress response pathways. In response to stress, jasmonates …

The term metabolome was coined in 1998, by analogy to genome, transcriptome and
proteome. The first research papers using the terms metabolomics, metabonomics …

Many plants store part of their photosynthate as starch during the day and remobilise it to
support metabolism and growth at night. Mutants unable to synthesize or degrade starch …

Plants are affected by complex genome× environment× management interactions which
determine phenotypic plasticity as a result of the variability of genetic components. Whereas …

The phloem is a central component of the plant's complex vascular system that plays a vital
role in moving photoassimilates from sites of primary acquisition to the heterotrophic tissues …

Photosynthesis is the basis for life, and its optimization is a key biotechnological aim given
the problems of population explosion and environmental deterioration. We describe a …

One of the most remarkable biological insights in the past 30 years has been that many
genetic programs for complex traits, such as flower or limb development, are shared across …

C4 and C3 photosynthesis differ in the efficiency with which they consume water and
nitrogen. Engineering traits of the more efficient C4 photosynthesis into C3 crops could …

Metabolomics approaches enable the parallel assessment of the levels of a broad range of
metabolites and have been documented to have great value in both phenotyping and …

Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) and its wild relatives harbor genetic diversity that yields
heritable variation in fruit chemistry that could be exploited to identify genes regulating their …