Metabolic efficiency underpins performance trade-offs in growth of arabidopsis thaliana
Kleessen, Sabrina Laitinen, Roosa Fusari, Corina M. Antonio, Carla Sulpice, Ronan Fernie, Alisdair R. Stitt, Mark Nikoloski, Zoran
Kleessen, Sabrina
Laitinen, Roosa
Fusari, Corina M.
Antonio, Carla
Sulpice, Ronan
Fernie, Alisdair R.
Stitt, Mark
Nikoloski, Zoran
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http://hdl.handle.net/10379/12287
https://doi.org/10.13025/28953
https://doi.org/10.13025/28953
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2014-03-28
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Kleessen, Sabrina; Laitinen, Roosa; Fusari, Corina M. Antonio, Carla; Sulpice, Ronan; Fernie, Alisdair R.; Stitt, Mark; Nikoloski, Zoran (2014). Metabolic efficiency underpins performance trade-offs in growth of arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Communications 5 ,
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Growth often involves a trade-off between the performance of contending tasks; metabolic plasticity can play an important role. Here we grow 97 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions in three conditions with a differing supply of carbon and nitrogen and identify a trade-off between two tasks required for rosette growth: increasing the physical size and increasing the protein concentration. We employ the Pareto performance frontier concept to rank accessions based on their multitask performance; only a few accessions achieve a good trade-off under all three growth conditions. We determine metabolic efficiency in each accession and condition by using metabolite levels and activities of enzymes involved in growth and protein synthesis. We demonstrate that accessions with high metabolic efficiency lie closer to the performance frontier and show increased metabolic plasticity. We illustrate how public domain data can be used to search for additional contending tasks, which may underlie the sub-optimality in some accessions.
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Springer Nature
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