Pharmazeutisches Institut, Abteilung Pharmazeutische Biologie, Christian-Albrechts- Universität zu Kiel, Gutenbergstraße 76, 24118, Kiel, Germany.
Phytochemistry. 2019 Jul;163:147-148. doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2019.02.013. Epub 2019 Mar 4.
Plant chemosystematic or chemotaxonomic studies based purely on the profiles of small molecules have become obsolete as tools to study phylogenetic relationships of higher plants due to the advent of the much more powerful (macro-) molecular techniques and new methods of data analysis established in parallel to these techniques. A new term is herein proposed for the field of studies aimed at the exploitation of characteristic arrays of specialized natural products of plant taxa: plant chemophenetics. Chemophenetic studies as defined here are studies aimed at describing the array of specialized secondary metabolites in a given taxon. Thus, chemophenetic studies contribute to the phenetic description of taxa, similar to anatomical, morphological, and karyological approaches, which have already been recognized as of major importance for establishing "natural" systems, and which continue to be of the utmost importance for the description of organisms classified with the help of modern molecular methods.
由于更强大的（宏）分子技术的出现以及与这些技术同时建立的新数据分析方法，纯粹基于小分子谱的植物化学系统学或化学分类学研究已成为研究高等植物系统发育关系的过时工具。本文为旨在利用植物分类群特有天然产物特征阵列的研究领域提出了一个新术语：植物化学生态型。这里定义的化学生态型研究是旨在描述给定分类群中特殊次生代谢物的阵列。因此，化学生态型研究有助于对分类群进行表型描述，类似于已经被认为对建立“自然”系统具有重要意义的解剖学、形态学和细胞学方法，并且对于使用现代分子方法分类的生物体的描述仍然至关重要。
