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The emergence and rapid growth of “omics” has led to a radical change in the viewpoint of life sciences research. Plant metabolomics is a progressing field of study in plant biology where lipidomics is one of the subunits of metabolomics, covering the entire lipidome of the plant body. Previously, mass spectrometry has been used to study plant lipidome and is presently coupled with various chromatographic techniques to produce more accurate results. Different environmental conditions and stresses contribute to the varying lipids profiling of plants. Numerous environmental stresses trigger lipid-facilitated signaling such as pathogen attack, temperature change, salinity, and drought. N-acylethanolamine, oxylipins, lysophospholipid, phosphatidic acid, inositol phosphate, fatty acid, sphingolipid, diacylglycerol, and N-acylethanolamine have all been suggested to have a signaling role. This chapter reviews various analytical techniques for studying plant lipids. Latest research carried out on lipids variations due to different environmental stresses have also been focused upon in the chapter.

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Afzal, F. et al. (2016). Technological Platforms to Study Plant Lipidomics. In: Hakeem, K., Tombuloğlu, H., Tombuloğlu, G. (eds) Plant Omics: Trends and Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31703-8_20

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