Trehalose is a quantitatively important compatible solute and stress protectant in many
organisms, including green algae and primitive plants. These functions have largely been …

Metabolites are the end products of cellular regulatory processes, and their levels can be
regarded as the ultimate response of biological systems to genetic or environmental …

Comprehensive in scope, Food Polysaccharides and Their Applications, Second Edition
explains the production aspects and the chemical and physical properties of the main …

AGPase, ADP glucose pyrophosphorylase GS, glutamine synthetase GOGAT, glutamate:
oxoglutarate amino transferase NADP‐ICDH, NADP‐dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase …

A new method is presented in which gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
(GC–MS) allows the quantitative and qualitative detection of more than 150 compounds …

Studies in populations of forest tree hybrids have shown a negative correlation of biomass
growth (usually measured as wood volume) and lignin content (Kirst et al., 2004; Novaes et …

Metabolic profiling using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry technologies is a
technique whose potential in the field of functional genomics is largely untapped. To …

Oxygen can fall to low concentrations within plant tissues, either because of environmental
factors that decrease the external oxygen concentration or because the movement of oxygen …

Legume seed development is characterized by progressive differentiation of organs and
tissues resulting in developmental gradients A developmental gradient results from the …

Background Recent advances with high-throughput methods in life-science research have
increased the need for automatized data analysis and visual exploration techniques …