Publication Date:
2012-06-30
Description:
Nitrogen (N)-based fertilizers increase agricultural productivity but have detrimental effects on the environment and human health. Research is generating improved understanding of the signaling components plants use to sense N and regulate metabolism, physiology, and growth and development. However, we still need to integrate these regulatory factors into signal transduction pathways and connect them to downstream response pathways. Systems biology approaches facilitate identification of new components and N-regulatory networks linked to other plant processes. A holistic view of plant N nutrition should open avenues to translate this knowledge into effective strategies to improve N-use efficiency and enhance crop production systems for more sustainable agricultural practices.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gutierrez, Rodrigo A -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Jun 29;336(6089):1673-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1217620.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation, Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Functional Genomics, Departamento de Genetica Molecular y Microbiologia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile. rgutierrez@bio.puc.cl〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22745422" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Agriculture
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Fertilizers
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Forecasting
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Nitrogen/*metabolism
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Plants/*metabolism
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Signal Transduction
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*Systems Biology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
