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Flux-Balance Modeling of Plant Metabolism

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Sweetlove, Lee J., Ratcliffe, R. George·2011·Frontiers in Plant Science

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Flux-balance modeling of plant metabolic networks provides an important complement to (13)C-based metabolic flux analysis. Flux-balance modeling is a constraints-based approach in which steady-state fluxes in a metabolic network are predicted by using optimization algorithms within an experimentally bounded solution space. In the last 2 years several flux-balance models of plant metabolism have been published including genome-scale models of Arabidopsis metabolism. In this review we consider what has been learnt from these models. In addition, we consider the limitations of flux-balance modeling and identify the main challenges to generating improved and more detailed models of plant metabolism at tissue- and cell-specific scales. Finally we discuss the types of question that flux-balance modeling is well suited to address and its potential role in metabolic engineering and crop improvement.

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  • Flux balance analysis is readily scaled to incorporate the entire metabolic system of a cell.

    “In contrast, a second modeling approach, flux balance analysis (FBA), is readily scaled to incorporate the entire metabolic system of a cell (Sweetlove and Ratcliffe, 2011; Shi and Schwender, 2016; Gomes de Oliveira Dal’Molin and Nielsen, 2018).”

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  1. Thornley J. H. M. Johnson I. R. (1990). Plant and Crop Modeling Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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Authors
Sweetlove, L. J., & Ratcliffe, R. G.
Affiliations
University of Oxford (GB)
Corresponding author
Sweetlove, Lee J.
Venue
Frontiers in Plant Science
Published
2011
Volume
2
Pages
38-38
ISSN
1664-462X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2015399172
Cited by
137
References
94
Citations by year
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FWCI
5.98
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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  • Frontiers in Plant Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Keywords
plant metabolism, metabolic networks, genome-scale metabolic models, Arabidopsis thaliana, 13C metabolic flux analysis, metabolic engineering, crop improvement

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