Abstract
Plants produce vast and diverse metabolites. These metabolites are important for our life because of their great utility as drugs and industrial materials. Plants are also a major source of crude drugs. In this context, plant metabolites and their biosynthetic pathways have been studied extensively. Recently, plant metabolomics is an important technology for plant omics research. An integrated resource of pathway and metabolite databases focused on plants is especially important for this research field.
KEGG PLANT is a new interface to the KEGG database resource, which contains overview and subcategory pathway maps to summarize plant pathways, and hierarchical classification of plant secondary metabolites and semi-synthetic drugs from plant origin. Plant secondary metabolism pathways in KEGG PATWAY database are also extensively updated. KEGG PLANT information is linked to some KEGG DRUG compound data via hierarchical classification of semi-synthetic drugs. This useful information will help plant research and related application research field.
