Patterns of metabolite changes identified from large-scale gene perturbations in arabidopsis using a genome-scale metabolic network

Plant Physiology

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1685-1698

  Kim, Taehyong ^a   Dreher, Kate ^a   Nilo Poyanco, Ricardo ^a   Lee, Insuk ^b   Fiehn, Oliver ^c   Lange, Bernd Markus ^d   Nikolau, Basil J ^e   Sumner, Lloyd ^f   Welti, Ruth ^g   Wurtele, Eve S ^e   Rhee, Seung Y ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

^g KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MUTATION; PLANT GENOME;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; MUTATION;

EID: 84926175755     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.252361     Document Type: Article

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