†Background Forage plant breeding is under increasing pressure to deliver new cultivars with improved yield, quality and persistence to the pastoral industry. New innovations in DNA sequencing technologies mean that quantitative trait loci analysis and marker-assisted selection approaches are becoming faster and cheaper, and are increasingly used in the breeding process with the aim to speed it...

Metabolite identifications are most frequently achieved in untargeted metabolomics by matching precursor mass and full, high-resolution MS spectra to metabolite databases and standards. Here we considered an alternative approach for establishing metabolite identifications that does not rely on full, high-resolution MS spectra. First, we select mass-to-charge regions containing the most informat...

INTRODUCTION: Transcriptomics and metabolomics are high-throughput technologies that are critical to contemporary biomedical sciences, measuring gene expression levels and metabolite concentrations, respectively. Effective methods of integrating metabolomics and transcriptomics data are highly desired. Gene and metabolic pathways represent accumulated expert knowledge in particular domains. LAS...