Every plant progresses through several major morphological and developmental changes during its life cycle. Impinging these developmental processes is a remarkable integration of the various players both at the regulatory and the structural level. A set of genes, RNAs, proteins, and metabolites (level 1), organize themselves into pathways in metabolism and motifs in genetic-regulatory networks (level 2), which in turn are the building blocks of functional modules (level 3). These multilevel networks are responsible for controlling the developmental transitions to ensure plant life success. New ‘omic technologies are allowing the acquisition of massive amounts of data to develop holistic and integrative analysis to understand complex these processes. Among them, Microarray, Next-generation Sequencing (NGS), Proteomics, and Metabolomics are providing enormous amounts of data from different plant species and developmental stages, thus allowing for wide analysis of regulatory networks. Besides, the comparison of molecular networks from different species is providing information on their evolutionary history, shedding new light on the origin of many key components of the first level. Moreover, developmental processes are not only genetically programmed but are also affected by internal and external signals. Metabolism, light, hormone action, temperature, biotic and abiotic stresses, etc. have a deep effect on developmental programs. The interface and interplay between these internal and external circuits with developmental programs can be unravelled through the integration of systematic experimentation with the computational tools analysis of the generated omics data (Molecular Systems Biology).
This Research Topic aims to put together different pieces of plant regulatory circuits to unravel new clues toward a full understanding of plant metabolic pathways and how they communicate with each other. Understanding the interface and interplay among different regulatory levels or even new approaches to reach these goals is very important to improvement of global agriculture.
We welcome all article type published by Frontiers in Plant Science that contribute to our understanding of Systems biology to Regulatory grids withing the context to improving plant evo-devo studies. Particularly we are interested in submissions related to but not limited to the following topics:
• Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology
• Bioinformatics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics
• System-wide analysis from genome to phenome
• Crop Evolution Genomics and Future Agricultural Productivity
• Genomic selection and genome-wide association studies
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence in genomics and phenomics
• Genome engineering and transgenic technology to the agriculture
• Agricultural genomics, domestication genomics, plant development, and crop improvement
• Plant nutritional genomics, plant signaling and chemical signaling
• Plant genome editing, engineering strategies and developments
• Plant Genetics and Epigenetics
• Model plants, crops, forestry, and various fruits research
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
Every plant progresses through several major morphological and developmental changes during its life cycle. Impinging these developmental processes is a remarkable integration of the various players both at the regulatory and the structural level. A set of genes, RNAs, proteins, and metabolites (level 1), organize themselves into pathways in metabolism and motifs in genetic-regulatory networks (level 2), which in turn are the building blocks of functional modules (level 3). These multilevel networks are responsible for controlling the developmental transitions to ensure plant life success. New ‘omic technologies are allowing the acquisition of massive amounts of data to develop holistic and integrative analysis to understand complex these processes. Among them, Microarray, Next-generation Sequencing (NGS), Proteomics, and Metabolomics are providing enormous amounts of data from different plant species and developmental stages, thus allowing for wide analysis of regulatory networks. Besides, the comparison of molecular networks from different species is providing information on their evolutionary history, shedding new light on the origin of many key components of the first level. Moreover, developmental processes are not only genetically programmed but are also affected by internal and external signals. Metabolism, light, hormone action, temperature, biotic and abiotic stresses, etc. have a deep effect on developmental programs. The interface and interplay between these internal and external circuits with developmental programs can be unravelled through the integration of systematic experimentation with the computational tools analysis of the generated omics data (Molecular Systems Biology).
This Research Topic aims to put together different pieces of plant regulatory circuits to unravel new clues toward a full understanding of plant metabolic pathways and how they communicate with each other. Understanding the interface and interplay among different regulatory levels or even new approaches to reach these goals is very important to improvement of global agriculture.
We welcome all article type published by Frontiers in Plant Science that contribute to our understanding of Systems biology to Regulatory grids withing the context to improving plant evo-devo studies. Particularly we are interested in submissions related to but not limited to the following topics:
• Plant Functional Genomics and Biotechnology
• Bioinformatics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and phenomics
• System-wide analysis from genome to phenome
• Crop Evolution Genomics and Future Agricultural Productivity
• Genomic selection and genome-wide association studies
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence in genomics and phenomics
• Genome engineering and transgenic technology to the agriculture
• Agricultural genomics, domestication genomics, plant development, and crop improvement
• Plant nutritional genomics, plant signaling and chemical signaling
• Plant genome editing, engineering strategies and developments
• Plant Genetics and Epigenetics
• Model plants, crops, forestry, and various fruits research
Please note: Frontiers in Plant Science does not accept solely descriptive studies - studies which report responses to treatments and descriptive reports of ‘Omics studies will not be considered if they do not progress biological understanding of these responses.
