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Plant metabolomics — the high-throughput analysis of plant compounds — is an invaluable tool for understanding plant metabolism. Recent innovations in mass-spectrometry-based analyses are shedding light on the structure and regulation of biosynthetic pathways and the temporal and spatial dynamics of the plant metabolome.