Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant Engineering
Since the development of agriculture, humans have relied on the cultivation of plants to satisfy our increasing demand for food, natural products, and other raw materials. As we understand more about plant development, we can better manipulate plants to fulfill our particular needs.Auxins are a clas...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Frontiers Media S.A.
2016-12-01
|
| Series: | Frontiers in Plant Science |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01881/full |
| _version_ | 1818233917128310784 |
|---|---|
| author | Alejandro Morales-Tapia Alfredo Cruz Ramirez |
| author_facet | Alejandro Morales-Tapia Alfredo Cruz Ramirez |
| author_sort | Alejandro Morales-Tapia |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | Since the development of agriculture, humans have relied on the cultivation of plants to satisfy our increasing demand for food, natural products, and other raw materials. As we understand more about plant development, we can better manipulate plants to fulfill our particular needs.Auxins are a class of simple metabolites that coordinate many developmental activities like growth and the appearance of functional structures in plants. Computational modeling of auxin has proven to be an excellent tool in elucidating many mechanisms that underlie these developmental events. Due to the complexity of these mechanisms, current modelling efforts are concerned only with single phenomena focused on narrow spatial and developmental contexts; but a general model of plant development could be assembled by integrating the insights from all of them.In this perspective, we summarize the current collection of auxin-driven computational models, focusing on how they could come together into a single model for plant development. A model of this nature would allow researchers to test hypotheses in silico and yield accurate predictions about the behavior of a plant under a given set of physical and biochemical constraints. It would also provide a solid foundation towards the establishment of plant engineering, a proposed discipline intended to enable the design and production of plants that exhibit an arbitrarily defined set of features. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-12T11:29:47Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-7d341619ab7f43c1ac1772dce1c698e9 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 1664-462X |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-12T11:29:47Z |
| publishDate | 2016-12-01 |
| publisher | Frontiers Media S.A. |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Frontiers in Plant Science |
| spelling | doaj.art-7d341619ab7f43c1ac1772dce1c698e92022-12-22T00:25:50ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Plant Science1664-462X2016-12-01710.3389/fpls.2016.01881198110Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant EngineeringAlejandro Morales-Tapia0Alfredo Cruz Ramirez1Unidad de Genómica Avanzada, LANGEBIO-CINVESTAVUnidad de Genómica Avanzada, LANGEBIO-CINVESTAVSince the development of agriculture, humans have relied on the cultivation of plants to satisfy our increasing demand for food, natural products, and other raw materials. As we understand more about plant development, we can better manipulate plants to fulfill our particular needs.Auxins are a class of simple metabolites that coordinate many developmental activities like growth and the appearance of functional structures in plants. Computational modeling of auxin has proven to be an excellent tool in elucidating many mechanisms that underlie these developmental events. Due to the complexity of these mechanisms, current modelling efforts are concerned only with single phenomena focused on narrow spatial and developmental contexts; but a general model of plant development could be assembled by integrating the insights from all of them.In this perspective, we summarize the current collection of auxin-driven computational models, focusing on how they could come together into a single model for plant development. A model of this nature would allow researchers to test hypotheses in silico and yield accurate predictions about the behavior of a plant under a given set of physical and biochemical constraints. It would also provide a solid foundation towards the establishment of plant engineering, a proposed discipline intended to enable the design and production of plants that exhibit an arbitrarily defined set of features.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01881/fullMorphogenesisPlantscomputational modelingdevelopmentauxinMorphodynamics |
| spellingShingle | Alejandro Morales-Tapia Alfredo Cruz Ramirez Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant Engineering Frontiers in Plant Science Morphogenesis Plants computational modeling development auxin Morphodynamics |
| title | Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant Engineering |
| title_full | Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant Engineering |
| title_fullStr | Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant Engineering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant Engineering |
| title_short | Computational Modeling of Auxin: A Foundation for Plant Engineering |
| title_sort | computational modeling of auxin a foundation for plant engineering |
| topic | Morphogenesis Plants computational modeling development auxin Morphodynamics |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpls.2016.01881/full |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT alejandromoralestapia computationalmodelingofauxinafoundationforplantengineering AT alfredocruzramirez computationalmodelingofauxinafoundationforplantengineering |