Analytical Technology -- Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry -- Current Status and Forward Looking Thoughts on LC/MS Metabolomics -- Plant Metabolomics Strategies Based upon Quadrupole Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (QTOF-MS) -- Capillary HPLC -- Capillary HPLC Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Quadrupole Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry -- NMR Spectroscopy in Plant Metabolomics -- Hetero-nuclear NMR-based Metabolomics -- Bioinformatics -- Bioinformatics Approaches to Integrate Metabolomics and Other Systems Biology Data -- Chemometrics in Metabolomics - An Introduction -- Map Editor for the Atomic Reconstruction of Metabolism (ARM) -- AraCyc: Overview of an Arabidopsis Metabolism Database and its Applications for Plant Research -- KaPPA-View: A Tool for Integrating Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Data on Plant Metabolic Pathway Maps -- KNApSAcK: A Comprehensive Species-Metabolite Relationship Database -- Applications -- Systems Biology: A Renaissance of the Top-down Approach for Plant Analysis -- Systems-based Analysis of Plant Metabolism by Integration of Metabolomics with Transcriptomics -- Targeted Profiling of Fatty Acids and Related Metabolites -- Metabolic Profiling and Quantification of Carotenoids and Related Isoprenoids in Crop Plants -- Metabolomics and Gene Identification in Plant Natural Product Pathways -- Metabolomic Analysis of Catharanthus roseus Using NMR and Principal Component Analysis -- Metabolomics of Plant Secondary Compounds: Profiling of Catharanthus Cell Cultures -- The Taxus Metabolome and the Elucidation of the Taxol® Biosynthetic Pathway in Cell Suspension Cultures -- The Use of Non-targeted Metabolomics in Plant Science -- Plant Metabolite Profiling for Industrial Applications. Metabolomics - which deals with all metabolites of an organism - is a rapidly-emerging sector of post-genome research fields. It plays significant roles in a variety of fields from medicine to agriculture and holds a fundamental position in functional genomics studies and their application in plant biotechnology. This volume comprehensively covers plant metabolomics for the first time. The chapters offer cutting-edge information on analytical technology, bioinformatics and applications. They were all written by leading researchers who have been directly involved in plant metabolomics research throughout the world. Up-to-date information and future developments are described, thereby producing a volume which is a landmark of plant metabolomics research and a beneficial guideline to graduate students and researchers in academia, industry, and technology transfer organizations in all plant science fields.