Root spatial metabolite profiling of two genotypes of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) reveals differences in response to short-term salt stress

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was funded by grants to the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), the South Australian Government, The University of Adelaide, The University of Queensland, and The University of Melbourne. Metabolomics Australia is funded through Bioplatforms Australia Pty Ltd from Federal Government grants to the NCRIS/CRIS/EIF programmes, the Victorian State Government, and the University of Melbourne. The ARC and University of Adelaide have supported this research by funding MS (DE140100575). The authors wish to thank Dr Rosemary Manhire-Heath for technical assistance, Dr Simon Crawford for microscopy, and Mrs Terra Stark (Metabolomics Australia) for help with root sampling and GC-MS analysis. We also thank Professor Steve Tyerman for critical reading of the manuscript.