Analytical technology. Gas chromatography mass spectrometry / J. Kopka -- Current status and forward looking thoughts on LC/MS metabolomics / L.W. Sumner -- Plant metabolomics strategies based upon quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry (QTOF-MS) / H.A. Verhoeven [and others] -- Capillary HPLC / T. Ikegami, E. Fukusaki, and N. Tanaka -- Capillary HPLC coupled to electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry / S. Clemens [and others] -- NMR spectroscopy in plant metabolomics / J.L. Ward and M.H. Beale -- Hetero-nuclear NMR-based metabolomics / J. Kikuchi and T. Hirayama -- Bioinformatics. Bioinformatics approaches to integrate metabolomics and other systems biology data / B. Mehrotra and P. Mendes -- Chemometrics in metabolomics : an introduction / J. Trygg [and others] -- Map editor for the atomic reconstruction of metabolism (ARM) / M. Arita, Y. Fujiwara, and Y. Nakanishi -- AraCyc : overview of an arabidopsis metabolism database and its applications for plant research / S.Y. Rhee [and others] -- KaPPA-view : a tool for integrating transcriptomic and metabolomic data on plant metabolic pathway maps / T. Tokimatsu [and others] -- KNApSAcK : a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database / Y. Shinbo [and others] -- Applications. Systems biology : a renaissance of the top-down approach for plant analysis / F. Carrari [and others] -- Systems-based analysis of plant metabolism by integration of metabolomics with transcriptomics / M.Y. Hirai, T. Tohge, and K. Saito -- Targeted profiling of fatty acids and related metabolites / T.R. Larson and I.A. Graham -- Metabolic profiling and quantification of carotenoids and related isoprenoids in crop plants / P.D. Fraser and P.M. Bramley -- Metabolomics and gene identification in plant natural product pathways / R.A. Dixon [and others] -- Metabolomic analysis of Catharanthus roseus using NMR and principal component analysis / H.K. Kim, Y.H. Choi, and R. Verpoorte -- Metabolomics of plant secondary compounds : profiling of Catharanthus cell cultures / M. Orei, H. Rischer, and K.-M. Oksman-Caldentey -- The Taxus metabolome and the elucidation of the Taxol® biosynthetic pathway in cell suspension cultures / R.E.B. Ketchum and R.B. Croteau -- The use of non-targeted metabolomics in plant science / T. Daskalchuk [and others] -- Plant metabolic profiling for industrial applications / R.N. Trethewey

Metabolomics - which deals with all metabolites of an organism - plays significant roles in a variety of fields from medicine to agriculture and holds a fundamental position in functional genomics studies and their application in plant biotechnology. Written by leading researchers, this volume gives a comprehensive coverage of this field