Terminology

Ionome

The genetically based variation in the elemental composition of plants

Resource Articles

1,135 ionomes reveal the global pattern of leaf and seed mineral nutrient and trace element diversity in Arabidopsis thaliana Campos et al. 2021 Resource Article

"We present an experimental design pipeline for high-throughput ionomic screenings and analyses with improved normalisation procedures to account for errors and variability in conditions often encountered in large-scale, high-throughput data collection."

"We report quantification of the complete leaf and seed ionome of the entire collection using this pipeline and a digital tool, Ion Explorer, to interact with the dataset."

"We describe the pattern of natural ionomic variation across the A. thaliana species and identify several accessions with extreme ionomic profiles."

"It forms a valuable resource for exploratory genetic mapping studies to identify genes underlying natural variation in leaf and seed ionome and genetic adaptation of plants to soil conditions."