Plant systems biology: Insights and advancements

Abstract

In order to study the complex biology of plants, systems biology focuses on every aspect of the highly interacting components (adjustment of metabolism in response to stresses, different physiological properties due to mutation and epigenetic effects, etc.) by the development of high-throughput data generation technologies, i.e. ‘omics’, massive databases, employment of specialised bioinformatics tools and algorithms. Mathematical models are also used to study the structure and dynamics of interacting networks. This approach is essential for understanding how a plant system works which is advantageous for further research.