Abstract
Considerable progress has been made in plant genome-scale metabolic reconstruction and modeling in recent years. Such reconstructions made it possible to explore metabolic phenotypes through appropriate model formulation and optimization methods. As a result, plant genome-scale modeling has increasingly attracted interest from the plant research community. In this chapter, the first generation of plant genome-scale metabolic reconstructions is presented, along with the important concepts behind model and constraint formulation. A brief protocol describing the use of constraint-based reconstruction and analysis (COBRA) Toolbox in flux simulation and model modification is provided. This is followed by a presentation of metabolic constraints required to generate fluxes in AraGEM using COBRA that describe photosynthesis, photorespiration, and respiration, respectively. Overall, plant genome-scale modeling is a powerful approach that is accessible and readily adopted.
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Dal’Molin, C.G.O., Quek, LE., Palfreyman, R.W., Nielsen, L.K. (2014). Plant Genome-Scale Modeling and Implementation. In: Dieuaide-Noubhani, M., Alonso, A. (eds) Plant Metabolic Flux Analysis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1090. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-688-7_19
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