We’re excited to announce that the PMN article, Plant Metabolic Network 16: expansion of underrepresented plant groups and experimentally supported enzyme data, from PMN members Charles Hawkins, Bo Xue, Farida Yasmin, Gabrielle Wyatt, Philipp Zerbe, and Seung Y Rhee, is amongst the most-cited articles published in Nucleic Acids Research!
This article discusses the PMN 16 release, which provides metabolic databases representing >1200 metabolic pathways, 1.3 million enzymes, >8000 metabolites, >10 000 reactions and >15 000 citations for 155 plant and green algal genomes, as well as a pan-plant reference database called PlantCyc.
PMN 16 expands coverage to 155 plant and algal genomes, adds many underrepresented species (including orphan crops and nonflowering plants), and incorporates new experimentally validated enzyme data to improve prediction accuracy. The paper also highlights upgraded tools for analyzing metabolic pathways and omics data, making PMN more useful for plant biology, crop engineering, and climate-resilience research.