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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 8, 167–174 (1 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/nrm2098

Towards the plant metabolome and beyond

Robert L. Last , A. Daniel Jones & Yair Shachar-Hill

Methods for network-wide analysis are increasingly showing that the textbook view of the regulation of plant metabolism is often incomplete and misleading. Recent innovations in small-molecule analysis have created the ability to rapidly identify and quantify numerous compounds, and these data are creating new opportunities for understanding plant metabolism and for plant metabolic engineering.