A liquid chromatograph-mass spectrometer for plant metabolomics

澳大利亚农业食品部门将显著受益于功能基因组学平台技术的建立，如代谢组学，这是“系统生物学”的基础；生物学的一个新分支，试图发现和理解从许多系统元素的相互作用中产生的生物特性。澳大利亚农业将受益于技术的发展，通过最大限度地减少非生物和生物压力的影响，以及减少对投入物（如化肥）的依赖，从而实现环境可持续的生产系统，从而提高产量和质量。最终，这将提高食品质量和分析方法，以监测食品的质量和安全特性。

The Australian Agrifood sector will benefit significantly from the establishment of functional genomics platform technologies, such as metabolomics, that underpin 'Systems Biology'; a new branch of biology that attempts to discover and understand biological properties that emerge from the interactions of many system elements. Australian agriculture will benefit through the development of techniques to improve both yield and quality through minimising the effects of abiotic and biotic stresses, and a reduced dependence on inputs (eg fertilisers) leading to environmentally sustainable production systems. Ultimately this will result in enhanced food quality and analytical methods to monitor quality and safety characteristics of food.