Metabolomics of forage plants: A review

Annals of Botany

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1281-1290

  Rasmussen, Susanne ^a   Parsons, Anthony J ^b   Jones, Christopher S ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; drought stress; forage plants; genetical metabolomics; Lolium perenne; Lotus spp.; Medicago sativa; metabolic profiling; Metabolomics; Neotyphodium spp. endophytes; nutrient stress; rhizobia

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; CULTIVAR; DICOTYLEDON; DROUGHT STRESS; ENDOPHYTE; FORAGE; FUNGUS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; GRASS; LEGUME; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT LOSS; PASTORALISM; PASTURE; PERICLASE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORUS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PRECISION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; YIELD RESPONSE;

AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSPERM; BIOMASS; BREEDING; ENDOPHYTE; FUNGUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; METABOLOMICS; MYCORRHIZA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RHIZOBIACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANGIOSPERMS; BIOMASS; BREEDING; ENDOPHYTES; FUNGI; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLOMICS; MYCORRHIZAE; PHENOTYPE; RHIZOBIACEAE; SELECTION, GENETIC; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; LOLIUM PERENNE; LONCHOCARPUS GLAUCIFOLIUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NEOTYPHODIUM; POACEAE;

EID: 84868020482     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcs023     Document Type: Review

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