蛋白质组技术已广泛应用于植物遗传、发育和生理生态等诸多生物学领域, 主要研究植物的遗传多样性、植物发育(如种子成熟与发芽过程)、组织器官的分化过程、不同亚细胞结构的新蛋白组分的发现及其功能鉴定、植物对非生物逆境(包括高温、低温、高盐和干旱等)和生物逆境(病虫害)的适应机制和植物与微生物(根瘤共生体)相互作用机制。同时对植物蛋白质组学的发展前景进行了讨论。

Proteome techniques have widely been applied to the fields of plant genetics, plant development, and plant physiology and ecology to investigate plant genetic diversity, plant development such as seed maturation and germination processes, differentiation of plant tissue and organ, separation and functional identification of novel component of various organells, mechanisms of plant adapted to abiotic or biotic stresses including high temperature, low temperature, high salt, drought, and pathogens and insects, and interaction of plant with microbe. The prospects of plant proteomics are discussed.