Molecular Biology of Plant Pathways » Metabolic Organization in Plants
Integration of Plant Metabolism
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The complexity of the plant metabolic network and its regulatory mechanisms
has been amply confirmed by the compelling body of experimental evidence that
has accumulated over the past decade from studies of the primary pathways
of carbohydrate metabolism. In particular, there have been numerous studies of
photosynthetic carbon assimilation and it is the aim of this section to present the
principal conclusions about network performance that can be drawn from investigations
of transgenic plants with reduced levels of Calvin cycle enzymes. The
analysis highlights the robustness of the metabolic network and the complexity
that needs to be incorporated into realistic models of plant metabolism.
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