Biotechnology Bulletin ›› 2025, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (4): 76-87.doi: 10.13560/j.cnki.biotech.bull.1985.2024-0814

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Combined Application of Multi-omics Technologies in Plant Metabolic Pathway Resolution

TANG You1,2(), ZHAO Jun-wei1, SUN Lan-xi2, LI Xiang1()   

  1. 1.Beijing Life Science Academy, Beijing 102209
    2.China Tobacco Chongqing Industrial Co. , Ltd. , Chongqing 400060
  • Received:2024-08-23 Online:2025-04-26 Published:2025-04-25
  • Contact: LI Xiang E-mail:tangyou@blsa.com.cn;lixiang@blsa.com.cn

Abstract:

Multi-omics technology refers to a combination of two or more omics, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics or metabolomics, etc. By analyzing batches of data from different biomolecular levels, it establishes the internal relations among biomolecules at different them. It is an effective tool for the systematic study of complex biological systems by an approach of the systematic study of biological samples. The metabolic pathways of plants are extremely complex, including the primary metabolic pathways that provide energy and nutrients for plant growth and the secondary metabolic pathways that produce a wide variety of small molecules. The relevant metabolites not only support plant growth and development but also play a pivotal role in the plant's responses to environmental stresses. For mankind, these metabolites serve as vital sources of food, energy and bio-materials. Moreover, numerous drug molecules or lead compounds with therapeutic effects discovered from plant metabolites have contributed greatly to human health. In recent years, because of the high-throughput and comprehensive detection advantages, technology of combined omics has been more and more widely used in plant metabolic pathway analysis and have yielded many excellent results due to the advantages of its high through-put and complete detection. From three aspects, namely, resistance to environmental stress, agronomic traits research, and natural product synthesis, this paper presents a classification and elaboration of related studies on plant metabolic pathway resolution using technology of combined application of omics. Finally, this paper discusses the current challenges and future potentials of this technology.

Key words: plant metabolic pathway analysis, omics analysis technology, combined multi-omics analysis