Recent approaches of Systems Biology and Omics in Plant Research

Abstract

The 2020 world population data sheet estimates that 30 years from now, the population is intended to outstretch approximately up to 9.9 billion. The exponential rise in population has led to the agitation of land and the environment. Abrupt changes in climatic conditions and increasing global population emphasize the propagation of novel crops and acclimatization of the available plants and crops to obtain sufficient food in the extended future. In addition to ‘Omics’, bioinformatics plays an essential role in understanding the underlying mechanism of molecular functional systems in various plants. Bioinformatics contributes towards multi-disciplinary interactions and helps to reshape agricultural tradition and production, providing knowledge for enhanced plant quality, and it also provides a plan of action for protection against adverse environmental conditions. This review examines recent approaches in systems biology for predicting the functionality of genes and their networks (GRNs) along with its influential effect in current research involving various disciplines like genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, phenomics, interactomics, ionomics, epigenomics and metabolomics, which will be very useful to researchers in plant sciences.