Abstract
The characteristic feature of plants is represented by their photosynthetic function and their huge chemical diversity. The so-called plant secondary products (recently often referred as 'specialized compounds') estimated over 200,000 compounds existing are used as medicines, functional ingredients of foods, flavors and industrial materials, which are all indispensable in our lives. Phytochemical genomics elucidating the genomics basis for this chemical diversity is recently recognized as one of major topics of plant science. This study has been initiated and developed with Arabidopsis, and now it is extending to crops and medicinal plants by taking the advantages of technology advancement of next-generation sequencing and cutting-edge metabolomics analysis. Overview for phytochemical genomics will be given as an introduction of the symposium.
