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Plant Metabolomics pp 185–198Cite as

Systems Biology: A Renaissance of the Top-down Approach for Plant Analysis

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Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 57))

6 Conclusions and Future Perspectives

The past years have revealed a great application for metabolite profiling as a diagnostic tool, and its growing importance in gene functional analysis is currently apparent. In contrast, attempts to use metabolite profiling as a tool in systems biology are in their infancy. It is likely that the development of systems biology depends to a large extent on technological improvements to improve our coverage of the metabolome. The integrative genomics approaches taken to date have given rich descriptive data networks. Whilst the challenge remains to elucidate themechanisms underlying behaviour in these networks, the fact that the phenotype of any biological system is largely determined by its metabolite composition provides ample reason to develop further on the foundation studies described in this chapter.

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    F. Carrari, N. Schauer, L. Willmitzer & A. R. Fernie

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Carrari, F., Schauer, N., Willmitzer, L., Fernie, A.R. (2006). Systems Biology: A Renaissance of the Top-down Approach for Plant Analysis. In: Saito, K., Dixon, R.A., Willmitzer, L. (eds) Plant Metabolomics. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 57. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29782-0_14

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