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| ‘Environment’ is the starting metabolite pool that is transformed by the organism(s) and may include anything from synthetic mixtures of metabolites, rich medias, plant exudates, microbial extracts, soil extracts, plant materials, etc. |
‘Metabolite’ includes organic compounds that can be accurately identified and measured in comparison of control and transformed environments.
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‘Organism’ is the transforming agent that results in the increase or decrease of metabolites within an environment and may be a monoculture or consortia of organisms (plants, bacterial isolates, native microbial communities from soil, etc.) |
