Rice is a staple food crop of the world and supports the livelihood of numerous farm families providing energy requirement of billions of people and playing a pivotal role in agro-ecosystem and bio-diversity and also sustains more than half of the global population, especially in Asia. The great opportunities of rice cultivation under varied agro-ecosystem can be successfully explored through intervention of integrated soil and crop management approaches for the benefit of human nutrition and thorough insight on rice Metabolomics for enhancement of nutritional profile and stress resilience for planning futuristic agricultural research to develop highly productive and qualitative rice-based cropping system with sustainable footprints. The diversity of metabolites in rice reflects its nutritional quality, stress response and adaptation to varying environments. Metabolomics, as an emerging omics tool, has revolutionized our understanding of plant metabolism, offering insights into genotype-phenotype linkages. This chapter presents a comprehensive account of rice metabolomics, summarizing studies across nutritional profiling, abiotic and biotic stress responses, and germplasm-specific metabolic diversity. The chapter also emphasizes metabolite-based breeding strategies and the integration of genomics and metabolomics for crop improvement.
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