Plant roots communicate with microbes in a sophisticated manner through chemical
communication within the rhizosphere, thereby leading to biofilm formation of beneficial …

Metabolites reflect the integration of gene expression, protein interaction and other different
regulatory processes and are therefore closer to the phenotype than mRNA transcripts or …

The notion that plants use specialized metabolism to protect against environmental stresses
needs to be experimentally proven by addressing the question of whether stress tolerance …

Environmental stress factors such as drought, elevated temperature, salinity and rising CO 2
affect plant growth and pose a growing threat to sustainable agriculture. This has become a …

Metabolomics is one omics approach that can be used to acquire comprehensive
information on the composition of a metabolite pool to provide a functional screen of the …

Metabolomics now plays a significant role in fundamental plant biology and applied
biotechnology. Plants collectively produce a huge array of chemicals, far more than are …

Across all facets of biology, the rapid progress in high-throughput data generation has
enabled us to perform multi-omics systems biology research. Transcriptomics, proteomics …

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is an important tuber crop with tremendous potential as a functional
food in the tropics and subtropics. However, the crop has not shown progressive productivity …

Abstract Main conclusions The 4-coumarate-CoA ligases (4CL) contribute in channelizing
flux of different phenylpropanoid biosynthetic pathways. Expression of 4CL is optimized at …

Research toward renewable and sustainable energy has identified specific terpenes
capable of supplementing or replacing current petroleum-derived fuels. Despite being …