title: Plant Pathway Databases.
abstract: Pathway databases provide information about the role of chemicals, genes, and gene products in the form of protein or RNA, their interactions leading to the formulation of metabolic, transport, regulatory, and signaling reactions. The reactions can then be tethered by the principle of inputs and outputs of one or more reaction to create pathways. This chapter provides a list of various online databases that carry information about plant pathways and provides a brief overview of how to use the pathway databases such as WikiPathways Plants Portal, MapMan and the cereal crop pathway databases like RiceCyc and MaizeCyc, that were developed using the Pathway Tools software.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, 2082 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331-2902, USA. jaiswalp@science.oregonstate.edu.
authors.forename: Pankaj
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jaiswal
authors.affiliation: IBMG: Institute for Biology I, RWTH Aachen University, Worringer Weg 2, 52074, Aachen, Germany.|Forschungszentrum Jülich IBG-2 Plant Sciences, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52425, Jülich, Germany.
authors.forename: Björn
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Usadel
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D012984:Software; D064878:Web Browser
keywords: Biological pathway s; Comparative pathway analysis; Gramene database; MaizeCyc; MapMan; Metabolic Pathways; Molecular interaction s; Plant pathway database s; Regulatory pathway s; RiceCyc; Signaling pathway s; Transport pathway s; WikiPathways