关键词: 代谢组学；代谢流组学；辅酶因子组学；系统生物学；基因功能

Abstract:

Plants collectively produce more than 200 000 organic chemicals (molecular weight <1 000), which exhibit diverse physiological functions during the life cycle of plants. Thus, plant metabolomics now plays a fundamental role in plant biology and applied biotechnology. The association analysis of metabolomics and transcriptomics data (or other omics data) is a powerful tool for elucidating the function of genes involved in plant metabolic network. In recent years, plant metabolomics exhibits new potentials to new research fields such as fluxome and cofactome analysis. We briefly discussed the current status and the applications of metabolomics as a plant functional genomics and system biology tool in this review, which was expected to provide a referance for understanding and studing meatbolomics.

Key words: meatbolomics, fluxome, cofactome, system biology, gene function