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. 2013 Feb 28;8(2):e57667. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057667

Figure 2. Visualization of maize grain metabolome.

Figure 2

This node and edge projection describes the grain metabolome observed in the methanolic extract from 210 inbred line varieties of maize. This network requires a minimum degree of connectivity between any two nodes (i.e. biochemical markers detected by mass spectrometry) that exceeds four standard deviations above the mean connectivity observed between detected markers. According to this threshold, 4,102 nodes are organized into 48 modules each represented by particular color. However, some modules have separated into multiple, distinct clusters as internal connectivity may fall beneath the 4 standard deviation cutoff, such that there are 101 objects in this projection.