Abstract
Until recently, plant metabolomics have provided a deep understanding on the metabolic regulation in individual plants as experimental units. The application of these techniques to agricultural systems subjected to more complex interactions is a step towards the implementation of translational metabolomics in crop breeding. We present here a review paper discussing advances in the knowledge reached in the last years derived from the application of metabolomic techniques that evolved from biomarker discovery to improve crop yield and quality. Translational metabolomics applied to crop breeding programs.
Highlights
The ideal conditions to maximize crop yield is the adjustment of all plant cell metabolic events with the environmental conditions
Optimization of plant architecture has been suggested as a focus to maximize impact on yield (Jiang et al 2013; Schauer et al 2006, 2008; Cai et al 2016), the capacity of a crop to produce and redistribute biomass is a direct consequence of the relationship between
In this review we discuss knowledge advances reached in the last years that tackle the above aspects of crop yield and quality derived from the application of metabolomic techniques, based on mass spectrometry (MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR)
Summary
The ideal conditions to maximize crop yield is the adjustment of all plant cell metabolic events with the environmental conditions. Optimization of plant architecture has been suggested as a focus to maximize impact on yield (Jiang et al 2013; Schauer et al 2006, 2008; Cai et al 2016), the capacity of a crop to produce and redistribute biomass is a direct consequence of the relationship between
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