Application of Metabolomics in Plant Research

代谢组学是继基因组学、蛋白组学之后一门新兴的组学技术，可对某一生物或细胞内所有低分子量代谢产物进行定性和定量分析。植物代谢组学已经成为代谢组学中一个重要分支。近几年随着气相色谱-质谱联用仪(Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer, GC-MS)、液相色谱–质谱联用仪(Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometer, LC-MS)、毛细管电泳–质谱联用仪(Capillary Electrophore-sis-Mass Spectrometry, CE-MS)等技术的发展及数据分析方法的完善，植物代谢组学被广泛应用到基因功能解析、代谢途径及代谢调控机理、作物产量及品质改善等研究领域，并展现出巨大的技术潜力。为此，本文综述了代谢组学在植物领域研究中的应用进展，指出其存在的问题，并对其应用前景进行了展望。 Metabolomics is an emerging omics technology after genomics and proteomics, which can qualify and quantify all small molecular weight metabolites in an organism or cells in a short time. With the technology development of gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS), liquid chroma-tography-mass spectrometer (LC-MS) and capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry (CE-MS), and the improvement of data process method and presented huge advantages, plant metabolomics has been used in multiple research fields such as functional genomics, metabolism pathway, crop improvement... In this paper, we reviewed the recent progress in plant metabolomics and the put-ative problem in this research field. Moreover, the application prospects of the plant metabolomics were also forecasted.