Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: Unraveling the Complexity of Genes and Networks to Survive - Abiotic Stress: Plant Responses and Applications in Agriculture - page 70

Figure 1. Schematic overview of a common System Biology approach to study abiotic stress responses in plants.
The breakthrough in Omics technologies has led to designing better experiments which
provide deep insight into the function of genes and also their effects on phenotypic change in
a specific biological context [280]. System biology approaches can circumvent some barriers
that had previously blocked the translation of knowledge gained from model plants, like
Arabidopsis thaliana and Medicago truncatula , to other economically important plant species in
light of current progress in generating new crop genome sequences and functional resources
[279, 281]. It is anticipated that this trend will continue into the next decade in light of current
developments in crop functional resources [281] and in view of the exponential number of
papers published on abiotic stress studies in plants using a systems biology approaches during
the last decade [279].