Plant Metabolic Networks
Plant Metabolic Networks Edited by Jörg Schwender Plants are the basis for human nutrition and are of increasing interest for the chemical industry as a source of chemical feed stocks. Fuels derived from plant biomass will increasingly replace fossil fuel
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Plant Metabolic Networks
Plant Metabolic Networks
J¨org Schwender Editor
Plant Metabolic Networks
Foreword by Jacqueline V. Shanks
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Editor J¨org Schwender Department of Biology Brookhaven National Laboratory 50 Bell Avenue Upton NY 11973 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-78744-2 e-ISBN 978-0-387-78745-9 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-78745-9 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009920489 c Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
I am delighted to see this pioneering edited book on plant metabolic networks, by Schwender. Now, and increasingly in the future, plant biotechnology will be key element in enabling a renewable and sustainable world. Plants and their products impact several economic sectors of society – food, feed, materials, environmental aesthetics, pharmaceuticals, fuels, and feedstocks for the chemical industry. With the advances in plant genomics, the plant researcher has a wealth of technologies available for enhanced plant productivity, but is left to ponder what the best approaches to link genotype to phenotype are. The linchpin in this link is the plant metabolic networks that govern plant product synthesis. The time is right for training many young scientists and engineers to develop and maximize the knowledge base of plant metabolic networks for the rational design of improved plant varieties. Unfortunately, there have been relatively few complete and technical books on quantitative analysis of metabolic networks, in plants in particular. Schwender brings his experience in, and enthusiasm for, plant metabolic networks to this book. His personal research experience in flux analysis is clear in guiding the organization and content of this book, and adds a tremendous amount of practical insight and relevance. One of the most impressive aspects of this book is its broad coverage by expert and active researchers in the field of the challenges involved in analyzing plant networks. Two highly divergent approaches are covered – the “omics” view that uses global measurements of network parts (metabolites, transcripts, proteins) and statistics to deduce correlative interactions versus the mechanistic view that uses modeling and is
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