11 Development and Systems Biology: Riding the Genomics Wave towards a Systems Understanding of Root Development

Annual Plant Reviews book series, Volume 35: Plant Systems Biology
II. Plant Systems Biology: Enumerating and Integrating the System Components
Siobhan M. Brady

Siobhan M. Brady

Duke University, Department of Biology and the Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Durham, NC, USA

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Philip N. Benfey

Philip N. Benfey

Duke University, Department of Biology and the Institute for Genome Science and Policy, Durham, NC, USA

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First published: 24 April 2018
This article was originally published in 2009 in Plant Systems Biology, Volume 35 (ISBN 9781405162838) of the Annual Plant Reviews book series, this volume edited by Gloria M. Coruzzi and Rodrigo A. Gutíerrez. The article was republished in Annual Plant Reviews online in April 2018.

Abstract

Systems biology approaches have recently garnered much interest in plant biology, primarily due to the massive increase of data obtained using genomic approaches. One advantage of using these approaches is the elucidation of emergent behaviour, or a complex pattern, which results from the interaction of simple components. The use of systems biology approaches to understand root development at various scales, including transcriptional networks that regulate cell identity, dynamic cellular behaviour that contributes to root growth and physical root architecture will be explored.

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