Metabolic and Transcriptional Reprogramming in Developing Soybean (Glycine max) Embryos.

ABSTRACT: Soybean (Glycine max) seeds are an important source of seed storage compounds, including protein, oil, and sugar used for food, feed, chemical, and biofuel production. We assessed detailed temporal transcriptional and metabolic changes in developing soybean embryos to gain a systems biology view of developmental and metabolic changes and to identify potential targets for metabolic engineering. Two major developmental and metabolic transitions were captured enabling identification of potential metabolic engineering targets specific to seed filling and to desiccation. The first transition involved a switch between different types of metabolism in dividing and elongating cells. The second transition involved the onset of maturation and desiccation tolerance during seed filling and a switch fr

SUBMITTER: Collakova E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3901275 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature