Advances in Plant Omics and Systems Biology Approaches

In the post-genomic era, several plant species have been sequenced and massive genomic information is now available which contributed to expand the development of novel technical strategies for the study of additional levels of biological information of plant species. This book focuses on the "omics" approaches together with systems analysis of several different plant species, which have revealed very interesting variations on the cellular responses at the protein, transcript and metabolite levels in response to changes environmental conditions. The volume covers recent technological advances in the area of "omics" and synthesizes recent findings of the field of plant "omics" and systems biology together along with techniques that can be applied for such studies.

Autorentext

Flavia Vischi Winck is a biologist, with a PhD in molecular biology. She has worked on protein chemistry, plant systems biology, functional genomics, molecular biology and biochemistry with focus in understanding signaling mechanisms and complex gene regulatory networks using proteomics, transcriptomics and bioinformatics approaches in a systems biology framework.

Inhalt
1. Introduction to plant omics and systems biology2. Modern approaches for transcriptome analyses in plants3. Plant proteomics and systems biology4. Subcellular proteomics as a unified approach of experimental localizations and computed prediction data for Arabidopsis and crop plants5. The contribution of metabolomics to systems biology: current applications bridging genotype and phenotype in plant science6. Interactomes: Experimental and in silico approaches7. Probabilistic graphical models applied to biological networks8. Cataloging posttranslational modifications in plant histones9. Current challenges in plant systems biology10. Contribution of omics and systems biology to plant biotechnology