Editorial: Plant chemoecology: Integrating micro- and macrolevel approaches in regulating secondary metabolism

For millions of years, with changes in ecological geography and environmental climate, various ecological elements have been interacting with each other constantly, while plants have gradually acquired the ability to adapt to changes in the environment and climate during evolution. This process involves the adaptive evolution of the biosynthesis of many secondary metabolites, which forms a variety of complex chemical interaction networks. Chemoecology refers to the application of modern biological technology and analytical chemistry methods to study macro-and microecological phenomena. The characteristics of the cross integration of contemporary chemoecology and systems biology research have been gradually highlighted, and chemoecology has entered the omics era. Today, chemoecology can be 24 defined as an interdiscipline that uses multidimensional analytical chemistry methods