ABSTRACT
The term “proteome” defi nes the expressed protein complement of a genome and was, according to a review by Thiellement et al. (2002), fi rst introduced in 1994 by Wilkins at a conference. The roots of this concept, however, date back to 1975 with the development of high resolution 2-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, abbreviated as 2-D PAGE or 2-DE. The fi rst plant large-scale proteomic work was published on Arabidopsis thaliana (Kamo et al. 1995). During the following years, proteomics emerged as a complementary approach to the analysis of genome expression at the mRNA level.
