Concepts in Plant Metabolomics

by Basil J. Nikolau

Book Overview

Analogous to genomics, which defines all genes in a genome irrespective of their functionality, metabolomics seeks to profile "all" metabolites in a biological sample irrespective of the chemical and physical properties of these molecules.

Metabolomics has the potential of defining cellular processes as it provides a measure of the ultimate phenotype of an organism, as defined by the collage of small molecules, whose levels of accumulation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402056079
• ISBN13: 9781402056079
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"