Main description:

Ecometabolomics: Metabolic Fluxes versus Environmental Stoichiometry focuses on the interaction between plants-particularly plants that have vigorous secondary metabolites-and the environment. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the responses of the metabolome of organisms to biotic and abiotic environmental changes. It includes an introduction to metabolomics, summaries of metabolomic techniques and applications, studies of stress in plants, and insights into challenges. This is a must-have reference for plant biologists, plant biochemists, plant ecologists and phytochemists researching the interface between plants and the environment using metabolomics.

Contents:

1. Introducing metabolomics 2. Integrated approach on plant biology via multianalogus methods 3. Metabolomics studies of stress in plants 4. Climatic change and metabolome fluxes 5. Instrumentation applied to metabolomic analysis 6. Ecological metabolomics: Challenges and Perspectives