Exploring horticultural and ecological chemistry through mass spectrometry-based metabolite profiling

Advances in mass spectrometry have provided researchers with powerful hypothesis-generating and exploratory tools for studying plant chemistry. However, identification of data is a major bottleneck due to the difficulty obtaining standards, overreliance on cheminformatics tools, and lack of interdisciplinary expertise. This work focuses on overcoming these challenges by pairing mass spectrometry-based metabolite profiling (MS-BMP) with heuristic techniques and likelihood assessments for exploring plant chemistry through interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches, and using complementary techniques to test hypotheses generated by exploratory metabolomics; the work focuses on projects that couldn’t progress without identification of compounds, for which standards were not readily available.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D. Biotechnology

Level thesis:degree_level

Doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Faculty of Mathematics and Science

Department dc:contributor.department

Centre for Biotechnology

Grantor

Brock University

Year dc:date.issued

2022

Author dc:creator

• Kempthorne, Christine

• tomato

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10464/16662

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:brocku.scholaris.ca:10464/16662