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Open AccessThe Impacts of Chitosan on Plant Root Systems and Its Potential to be Used for Controlling Fungal Diseases in Agriculture
Chitosan is a natural elicitor, used for stimulating plant growth and inducing plant defense. However, due to difficulty in monitoring root growth and activity, the effects of chitosan treatment on plant root ...
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Open AccessDiscovery of novel neutral glycosphingolipids in cereal crops: rapid profiling using reversed-phased HPLC–ESI–QqTOF with parallel reaction monitoring
This study explores the sphingolipid class of oligohexosylceramides (OHCs), a rarely studied group, in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) through a new lipidomics approach. Profiling identified 45 OHCs in barley (Hordeu...
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Open AccessRoot-TRAPR: a modular plant growth device to visualize root development and monitor growth parameters, as applied to an elicitor response of Cannabis sativa
Plant growth devices, for example, rhizoponics, rhizoboxes, and ecosystem fabrication (EcoFAB), have been developed to facilitate studies of plant root morphology and plant-microbe interactions in controlled l...
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Open AccessA six-metabolite panel as potential blood-based biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease
Characterisation and diagnosis of idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (iPD) is a current challenge that hampers both clinical assessment and clinical trial development with the potential inclusion of non-PD cases. ...
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Localization of mercury and gold in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)
The potential of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) for simultaneous Hg and Au phytoextraction was explored by investigating Hg and Au localization in cassava roots through Micro-Proton Induced X-Ray Emission, H...
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PHAB toxins: a unique family of predatory sea anemone toxins evolving via intra-gene concerted evolution defines a new peptide fold
Sea anemone venoms have long been recognized as a rich source of peptides with interesting pharmacological and structural properties, but they still contain many uncharacterized bioactive compounds. Here we re...
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Review of recent developments in GC–MS approaches to metabolomics-based research
Metabolomics aims to identify the changes in endogenous metabolites of biological systems in response to intrinsic and extrinsic factors. This is accomplished through untargeted, semi-targeted and targeted bas...
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Open AccessHigh-mass-resolution MALDI mass spectrometry imaging reveals detailed spatial distribution of metabolites and lipids in roots of barley seedlings in response to salinity stress
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a technology that enables the visualization of the spatial distribution of hundreds to thousands of metabolites in the same tissue section simultaneously. Roots are below-gro...
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Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) for Plant Metabolomics
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a develo** technique to measure the spatiotemporal distribution of many biomolecules in tissues. Over the preceding decade MSI has been adopted by plant biologists and appl...
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Correction: Corrigendum: The genome of Chenopodium quinoa
Nature 542, 307–312 (2017); doi:10.1038/nature21370 The Acknowledgements section of this Article should have included the following sentence: “Metabolite imaging was conducted at Metabolomics Australia (School...
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Open AccessDiurnal Changes in Transcript and Metabolite Levels during the Iron Deficiency Response of Rice
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is highly susceptible to iron (Fe) deficiency due to low secretion levels of the mugineic acid (MA) family phytosiderophore (PS) 2′-deoxymugineic acid (DMA) into the rhizosphere. The low le...
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Open AccessThe genome of Chenopodium quinoa
Chenopodium quinoa (quinoa) is a highly nutritious grain identified as an important crop to improve world food security. Unfortunately, few resources are available to facilitate its genetic improvement. Here we r...
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Spatial Metabolite Profiling by Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Mass Spectrometry Imaging
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is rapidly maturing as an advanced method for spatial metabolite profiling. Herein, we provide an introduction to MSI including types of instrumentation, detailed sample prepara...
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Open AccessMass spectrometry imaging for plant biology: a review
Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a develo** technique to measure the spatio-temporal distribution of many biomolecules in tissues. Over the preceding decade, MSI has been adopted by plant biologists and ap...
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Open AccessA new peak detection algorithm for MALDI mass spectrometry data based on a modified Asymmetric Pseudo-Voigt model
Mass Spectrometry (MS) is a ubiquitous analytical tool in biological research and is used to measure the mass-to-charge ratio of bio-molecules. Peak detection is the essential first step in MS data analysis. P...
