Illuminating a plant's tissue-specific metabolic diversity using computational metabolomics and information theory.

ABSTRACT: Secondary metabolite diversity is considered an important fitness determinant for plants' biotic and abiotic interactions in nature. This diversity can be examined in two dimensions. The first one considers metabolite diversity across plant species. A second way of looking at this diversity is by considering the tissue-specific localization of pathways underlying secondary metabolism within a plant. Although these cross-tissue metabolite variations are increasingly regarded as important readouts of tissue-level gene function and regulatory processes, they have rarely been comprehensively explored by nontargeted metabolomics. As such, important questions have remained superficially addressed. For instance, which tissues exhibit prevalent signatures of metabolic specialization? Reciprocally,

SUBMITTER: Li D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5127351 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature