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Science 25 April 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5875, pp. 479 - 481
DOI: 10.1126/science.1153715
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Perspective

Genome-Enabled Approaches Shed New Light on Plant Metabolism

Dean DellaPenna1* and Robert L. Last1,2

Plant metabolism research has experienced a second golden age resulting from synergies between genome-enabled technologies and classical biochemistry. The rapid rate at which genomics data are being accumulated creates increased needs for robust metabolomic technologies and fast and accurate methods for identifying the activities of enzymes.

1 Department of Biochemistry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
2 Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: dellapen{at}msu.edu

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