System, trends and perspectives of proteomics in dicot plants

This review is devoted to the proteomics studies in dicotyledoneous (dicot) plants, such as Arabidopsis, Medicago, potato, soybean, and tomato, under the influence of the environment and at the functional and genetic relationship levels, where the two core technologies, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-DGE) and mass spectrometry (MS) have been instrumental in unraveling the proteomes affected therein. Abiotic and biotic stress responses, including the affect of allergens, the symbiotic interaction between the members of the Leguminoseae family and genera of nitrogen fixing bacteria, phosphoproteomics, and proteomics in revealing the genetic relationships between species and genera have been the subject of many proteomics studies, and these are discussed in this review. In all, these studies have complemented and extended the studies of developmental proteomics [G.K. Agrawal, M. Yonekura, Y. Iwahashi, H. Iwahashi, R. Rakwal, J. Chromatogr. B (2004)].