Metabolite Profiling

Initiated by Prof Mike Beale (Rothamsted Research) the orginal aim of this projects was to develop high throughput mass spectrometric methods for metabolite profiling in Arabidopsis. During three years of GARNet funding techniques and approaches were developed for the screening of mutant or tagged lines of Arabidopsis and the progress of these projects can be viewed here.

The metabolite profiling service for the Arabidopsis has now moved to full cost recovery and is provided by the National Centre for Plant and Microbial Metabolomics at Rothamsted headed by Mike Beale and managed by Jane Ward.
The Metabolomics Centre facilities consist of a modern suite of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectroscopy (MS) laboratories, staffed by experienced spectroscopists, access to extensive resources in analytical chemistry and growth of plants in controlled environments.
Services available to the Arabidopsis community include comprehensive analysis by NMR fingerprinting and also a range of targeted methods including analysis of flavonoids, carotenoids, fatty acids, amino acids and phenylpropanoids.

To find out more or apply for this service click here.