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Annals of Botany, doi:10.1093/aob/mcl116
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Annals of Botany Company. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org
Received December 30, 2005
Revised February 6, 2006
Accepted March 8, 2006

Invited Review

Plant Nutriomics in China: An Overview

XIAOLONG YAN 1, PING WU 2, HONGQING LING 3, GUOHUA XU 4, FANGSEN XU 5, and QIFA ZHANG 5 *

1 Laboratory of Plant Nutritional Genetics, Root Biology Center, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
2 State Key Laboratory of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China
3 State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
4 College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
5 National Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
QIFA ZHANG, E-mail: qifazh{at}mail.hzau.edu.cn


  Abstract

• Background Population and environmental pressure have imposed a great challenge on agriculture in China to explore innovative and effective solutions to its pressing plant nutritional problems. Plant nutriomics is a new frontier in plant biology that can provide innovative solutions for improving plant nutrient efficiency, thus increasing crop productivity through genetic and molecular approaches.

• Scope This review summarizes current efforts and progress in plant nutriomic research in China with examples from several case studies. It also points out potential obstacles and depicts future perspectives in this emerging frontier of plant nutrition.

• Conclusions Although plant nutriomics is still at a conceptual stage, substantial efforts are being made in China aimed at increasing plant nutrient efficiency through a nationwide, co-ordinated project on plant nutriomics. Future studies involving both national and international collaborations are needed to develop nutrient-efficient, stress-tolerant and high-quality crop varieties for both China and elsewhere.

Keywords: China, genomics, metabolomics, nutrient efficiency, plant nutriomics, proteomics, transcriptomics.
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