TY  - JOUR
A1  - Witzel, Katja
A1  - Neugart, Susanne
A1  - Ruppel, Silke
A1  - Schreiner, Monika
A1  - Wiesner, Melanie
A1  - Baldermann, Susanne
T1  - Recent progress in the use of 'omics technologies in brassicaceous vegetables
JF  - Frontiers in plant science
N2  - Continuing advances in 'omics methodologies and instrumentation is enhancing the understanding of how plants cope with the dynamic nature of their growing environment. 'Omics platforms have been only recently extended to cover horticultural crop species. Many of the most widely cultivated vegetable crops belong to the genus Brassica: these include plants grown for their root (turnip, rutabaga/swede), their swollen stem base (kohlrabi), their leaves (cabbage, kale, pak choi) and their inflorescence (cauliflower, broccoli). Characterization at the genome, transcript, protein and metabolite levels has illustrated the complexity of the cellular response to a whole series of environmental stresses, including nutrient deficiency, pathogen attack, heavy metal toxicity, cold acclimation, and excessive and sub optimal irradiation. This review covers recent applications of omics technologies to the brassicaceous vegetables, and discusses future scenarios in achieving improvements in crop end-use quality.
KW  - genomics
KW  - transcriptomics
KW  - metabolomics
KW  - proteomics
KW  - crop
KW  - microbiomics
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00244
SN  - 1664-462X
VL  - 6
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wagner, Nicole D.
A1  - Hillebrand, Helmut
A1  - Wacker, Alexander
A1  - Frost, Paul C.
T1  - Nutritional indicators and their uses in ecology
JF  - Ecology letters
N2  - The nutrition of animal consumers is an important regulator of ecological processes due to its effects on their physiology, life-history and behaviour. Understanding the ecological effects of poor nutrition depends on correctly diagnosing the nature and strength of nutritional limitation. Despite the need to assess nutritional limitation, current approaches to delineating nutritional constraints can be non-specific and imprecise. Here, we consider the need and potential to develop new complementary approaches to the study of nutritional constraints on animal consumers by studying and using a suite of established and emerging biochemical and molecular responses. These nutritional indicators include gene expression, transcript regulators, protein profiling and activity, and gross biochemical and elemental composition. The potential applications of nutritional indicators to ecological studies are highlighted to demonstrate the value that this approach would have to future studies in community and ecosystem ecology.
KW  - Ecological stoichiometry
KW  - lipid profiling
KW  - metabolism
KW  - nutrient-stress
KW  - nutrition
KW  - proteomics
KW  - transcriptomics
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12067
SN  - 1461-023X
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
SP  - 535
EP  - 544
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -