title: Systems biology for enhanced plant nitrogen nutrition.
abstract: 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.
authors: FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation, Millennium Nucleus Center for Plant Functional Genomics, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 340, Santiago, Chile. rgutierrez@bio.puc.cl
authors: Rodrigo A
authors: RA
authors: Gutiérrez
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D005308:Fertilizers; D005544:Forecasting; D009584:Nitrogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D049490:Systems Biology
chemical_list: D005308:Fertilizers; D009584:Nitrogen