Systems biology for the virtual plant.

摘要

This paper focuses on the application of systems biology (which embodies an iterative process of experimentation at a global level, data integration, system modelling and generation of hypotheses) in plant research to describe processes across all layers of biological organization (molecular, cellular, physiological, organismal, and ecological). The role of systems biology in the integration of genomic data and understanding the physical and regulatory relationships among plant gene products is discussed..