The next Agronomy and Horticulture seminar is April 3
Noure Benkeblia, Professor of Crop Science; Director of Laboratory of Crop Science, Department of Life Sciences, Caribbean Centre for Research in Bioscience, University of the West Indies Mona Campus, Jamaica, will present “Ecometabolomics and Plant Response to Climate Change” on Thursday, April 3 at 11 a.m. CDT in Keim Hall 150 or streamed live via Zoom at https://go.unl.edu/seminars.
With over 400,000 metabolites estimated in plant species, metabolomics is being considered as a promising tool that revealed its efficiency to study the complete set of small naturally present or stresses elicited metabolites. The study led to a comprehensive analysis of metabolites and metabolic pathways in plant tissues.
Benkeblia will discuss the relatively new research discipline of Ecometabolomics—applying metabolomics techniques to ecology to characterise biochemical interactions of organisms across different spatial and temporal scales. This experimental high-throughput analysis of molecular networks is considered a central approach to characterize the adaptation of plant metabolism to the change in the environment, particularly rising temperatures and carbon dioxide enrichment of the atmosphere.