First Systematic Network Map for Arabidopsis
August 12, 2011| |
The mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana is a popular model organism for biological studies of plants. An international consortium of scientists has produced the first systematic network map of interactions known as "interactome" that occur between proteins in the plant.
The network map defines 6,205 protein-to-protein Arabidopsis interactions involving 2,774 individual proteins. This will help discover new findings about plant growth and disease resistance and advance efforts to produce crops with new traits.
"This starts to give us a big, systems-level picture of how Arabidopsis works, and much of that systems-level picture is going to be relevant to--and guide further research on--other plant species, including those used in human agriculture and even pharmaceuticals," says Salk Institute biologist Joseph Ecker, a senior member of the Consortium.
The original news from National Science Foundation is available at http://nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121217&org=NSF&from=news.
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