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Plant lipidomics: discerning biological function by profiling plant complex lipids using mass spectrometry
Ruth Welti1,*, Jyoti Shah1, Weiqi Li2, Maoyin Li3,4, Junping Chen5, John J. Burke5, Marie-Laure Fauconnier6, Kent Chapman7, Mee-Len Chye8, Xuemin Wang3
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Kansas Lipidomics Research Center, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 661100, China, Department of Biology, Honghe University, Mengzi, Yunnan 661100, China
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Department of Biology, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO 63121, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO 63132, USA
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Department of Biochemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA
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Plant Stress and Germplasm Development Unit, USDA-ARS, 3810 4th St., Lubbock, TX 79415, USA
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Plant Biology Unit, Gembloux Agricultural University, Passage des Déportés 2, B-5030 Gembloux, Belgium
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Center for Plant Lipid Research, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203, USA
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Department of Botany, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Front. Biosci. (Landmark Ed) 2007, 12(7), 2494–2506;
https://doi.org/10.2741/2250
Published: 1 January 2007
Abstract
Since 2002, plant biologists have begun to apply mass spectrometry to the comprehensive analysis of complex lipids. Such lipidomic analyses have been used to uncover roles for lipids in plant response to stresses and to identify in vivo functions of genes involved in lipid metabolism.