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The Plant Metabolic Network

Our Mission

The central goal of the Plant Metabolic Network (PMN) is to bring together biochemical pathway databases and research communities focused on plant metabolism**.**

As the worldwide demand for production of food, animal feed, biofuels, industrial inputs, and new medicines continues to grow, there is an increasingly urgent need to develop new technologies using plants. The long-term goal of developing these technologies has prompted the sequencing of plant genomes and gene complements. There is a growing need to place the sequenced and annotated genomes in a biochemical context in order to facilitate the discovery of enzymes and engineering of metabolism. PMN will generate an infrastructure for drawing together diverse sources of plant metabolism information.

News

PMN 17 Released

We are super excited to announce the release of PMN 17! PMN 17 is the largest release in the history of PMN. Enabled by our new backend pipeline, PMN 17 includes 583 single-species databases, including updated versions of the 155 databases from PMN 16

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New CURE Course Offered at UC David Led by PMN Member Philipp Zerbe

The new CURE course at UC Davis, led by PMN member Philipp Zerbe, is helping students to create an interactive chemical map of Arboretum plants. Read about it here: https://biology.ucdavis.edu/news/whats-leaf-students-map-chemistry-campus-plants Photo: Katrina Huynh – UC Davis

New Publication: “Mapping multi-substrate specificity of Arabidopsis aminotransferases”

A new paper by PMN members Hiroshi A. Maeda, Sueng Y. Rhee, Charles Hawkins, and Marcos V. V. de Oliveira, was recently published in Nature Plants. Titled “Mapping multi-substrate specificity of Arabidopsis aminotransferases,” this paper lays the groundwork for engineering crops that use nitrogen more efficiently, reducing our dependence on harmful fertilizers. It also helps scientists better predict and model plant…

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