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. 2019 Jan 15;179(3):894–906. doi: 10.1104/pp.18.01273

Table 1. Survey of existing plant genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions and some of their properties.

Rice, Oryza sativa; sorghum, Sorghum bicolor; sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum; tomato, Solanum lycopersicum.

Model Organism Context No. of Compartments/Reactions/Metabolites References
C3 plants
 Arabidopsis Heterotrophic cell culture 2/1,336/1,231 Poolman et al. (2009)
 Arabidopsis (AraGEM) Photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic tissues 5/1,567/1,748 de Oliveira Dal’Molin et al. (2010)
 Arabidopsis (iRS1597) Photosynthetic and nonphotosynthetic tissues 5/1,985/1,825 Saha et al. (2011)
 Arabidopsis (context and tissue specific) Condition-specific models for compartmented cell, cell culture, cotyledon, flower bud, open flower, root, juvenile leaf, and silique 7/1,929/1,410 Mintz-Oron et al. (2012)
 Arabidopsis Heterotrophic cell culture 5/2,769/2,618 Cheung et al. (2013)
 Arabidopsis Leaf metabolism over a day-night cycle 5/5,609/5,235 Cheung et al. (2014)
 Arabidopsis (AraCORE) Photoautotrophically growing leaf cell 4/549/407 Arnold and Nikoloski (2014)
 Arabidopsis Plant primary and secondary metabolism 8/6,399/6,236 Seaver et al. (2015)
 Arabidopsis Multitissue whole-plant model 6/9,727/10,733 Gomes de Oliveira Dal’Molin et al. (2015)
 Arabidopsis Mesophyll and guard cell 4/455/374 Robaina-Estévez et al. (2017)
 Arabidopsis Root, stele, endodermis, cortex and epidermis (atrichoblasts), xylem, phloem, and pericycle cells 8/2,199/1,813 Scheunemann et al. (2018)
 Rice Developing leaf cell 3/1,736/1,484 Poolman et al. (2013)
 Rice (iOS2164) Single leaf cell 7/2,441/1,999 Lakshmanan et al. (2015)
 Tomato (iHY3410) Single leaf cell 5/2,143/1,998 Yuan et al. (2016)
C4 plants
 Maize, sorghum, sugarcane (C4GEM) Mesophyll and bundle sheath cells 5/1,588/1,775 Dal’Molin et al. (2010)
 Maize (iRS1563) Single cell 5/1,798/1,820 Saha et al. (2011)
 Maize (iEB5204) Single leaf cell 12/1,535/1,125 Bogart and Myers (2016)
 Maize (iEB2140) Single leaf cell 12/635/603 Bogart and Myers (2016)
 Maize (iEB2140x2) Mesophyll and bundle sheath cells in developing maize leaf 19/1,268/1,121 Bogart and Myers (2016)
 Maize Bundle sheath and mesophyll cells 7/8,525/9,153 Simons et al. (2014)
 Maize (full and tissue specific) Plant primary and secondary metabolism, leaf cell, embryo cell, endosperm cell 8/6,458/6,250 Seaver et al. (2015)
Crassulacean acid metabolism plants
 Crassulacean acid metabolism Leaf cell day-night cycle 25/1,312/1,112 Shameer et al. (2018)