“…Initial applications of metabolic profiling were largely focused on the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana (von Roepenack-Lahaye et al, 2004; Tohge et al, 2005; Gibon et al, 2006; Trenkamp et al, 2009; Araujo et al, 2010; Kerwin et al, 2011), however, several studies have been carried out on the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (Giroud et al, 1988; Bolling and Fiehn, 2005; May et al, 2008; Boyle and Morgan, 2009; Renberg et al, 2010) with other successful applications being reported for Catharanthus roseus (Rischer et al, 2006), Fragaria x ananassa (Aharoni et al, 2000, 2002; Hanhineva et al, 2008), Hordeum vulgare (Widodo Patterson et al, 2009), Medicago truncatula (Achnine et al, 2005), Nicotiana tabacum (Goossens et al, 2003), Oryza sativa (Albinsky et al, 2010), Perilla frutescens (Yamazaki et al, 2008), Pisum sativum (Jom et al, 2010), and Solanum lycopersicum (Schauer et al, 2005, 2006; Moco et al, 2006; Fraser et al, 2007) as well as the unicellular prokaryotes Synechocystis sp. (Krall et al, 2009) and the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum (Allen et al, 2008).…”