New approaches for Detection of Unique Qualities of Small Fruits

The omics disciplines applied in the context of nutrition and health have the potential to deliver biomarkers for health and comfort, reveal early indicators of disposition to disease, and discover bioactive, beneficial food components. These technologies are aimed at unraveling the overall expression of genes, proteins, and metabolites in a functionally relevant context, and provide insights into the molecular basis of various fundamental processes involved in growth and development of plants and their environment. Genomics is an entry point for looking at the other omics sciences. The information in the genes of an organism, its genotype, is largely responsible for the final physical makeup of the organism, referred to as the phenotype. The main purpose of the application of genomics is to gain a better understanding of the whole genome of plants. Agronomically important genes may be identified and targeted to produce more nutritious and safe food while at the same time preserving the environment. Proteomics is known as protein expression profiling, whereby the expression of proteins in an organism resulting from a stimulus is identified at a certain time. Proteomics can also be applied to CONteNtS