diff --git a/converter-sbml/.gitignore b/converter-sbml/.gitignore
index 3ef28bc2556a4519dae74f24e6cd947984f838ba..b63db0be70551e9eba1324140647e7df021613bc 100644
--- a/converter-sbml/.gitignore
+++ b/converter-sbml/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+.settings/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs
+
 /bin/
 tmp.png
 tmp.xml
diff --git a/converter-sbml/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/SbmlReactionExporter.java b/converter-sbml/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/SbmlReactionExporter.java
index ef9da4db73f43dd08b3ee0c90691189516fca5dc..59dce0b23a80580760f66c28d8ba78b809208bf9 100644
--- a/converter-sbml/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/SbmlReactionExporter.java
+++ b/converter-sbml/src/main/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/SbmlReactionExporter.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 import org.sbml.jsbml.ASTNode;
 import org.sbml.jsbml.KineticLaw;
 import org.sbml.jsbml.LocalParameter;
+import org.sbml.jsbml.Model;
 import org.sbml.jsbml.SimpleSpeciesReference;
 import org.sbml.jsbml.Species;
 import org.sbml.jsbml.SpeciesReference;
@@ -63,7 +64,10 @@ public class SbmlReactionExporter extends SbmlBioEntityExporter<Reaction, org.sb
     }
     result = getSbmlModel().createReaction(reactionId);
     result.setReversible(reaction.isReversible());
-    result.setSBOTerm(SBOTermReactionType.getTermByType(reaction.getClass()));
+    String sboTerm = SBOTermReactionType.getTermByType(reaction.getClass());
+    if (sboTerm != null) {
+      result.setSBOTerm(sboTerm);
+    }
     for (Product product : reaction.getProducts()) {
       Species sbmlSymbol = speciesExporter.getSbmlElementByElementId(product.getElement().getElementId());
       SpeciesReference speciesReference = result.createProduct(sbmlSymbol);
@@ -222,4 +226,9 @@ public class SbmlReactionExporter extends SbmlBioEntityExporter<Reaction, org.sb
     return curve;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  protected void setSbmlModel(Model sbmlModel) {
+    super.setSbmlModel(sbmlModel);
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/AllSbmlConverterTests.java b/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/AllSbmlConverterTests.java
index 899613933053c2f1c5c9252f8586b2099c078703..30246e7ed2d40ed6539e4ccdf7a982d3654e17ff 100644
--- a/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/AllSbmlConverterTests.java
+++ b/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/AllSbmlConverterTests.java
@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
 import org.junit.runners.Suite;
 import org.junit.runners.Suite.SuiteClasses;
 
-import lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.reaction.SbmlReactionParserTest;
+import lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.reaction.AllSbmlReactionParserTests;
 import lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.species.SbmlSpeciesParserTest;
 
 @RunWith(Suite.class)
-@SuiteClasses({ GenericSbmlParserTest.class, //
+@SuiteClasses({ AllSbmlReactionParserTests.class, //
+    GenericSbmlParserTest.class, //
     GenericSbmlToXmlParserTest.class, //
     SbmlExporterTest.class, //
     SbmlPareserForInvalidReactionTest.class, //
     SbmlParserTest.class, //
-    SbmlReactionParserTest.class, //
     SbmlSpeciesParserTest.class,//
 })
 public class AllSbmlConverterTests {
diff --git a/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/AllSbmlReactionParserTests.java b/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/AllSbmlReactionParserTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50a0ba00c3a05782421c37d7d128bb2689494ae2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/AllSbmlReactionParserTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.reaction;
+
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.Suite;
+import org.junit.runners.Suite.SuiteClasses;
+
+@RunWith(Suite.class)
+@SuiteClasses({ SbmlReactionExporterTest.class, //
+    SbmlReactionParserTest.class //
+})
+public class AllSbmlReactionParserTests {
+
+}
diff --git a/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/SbmlReactionExporterTest.java b/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/SbmlReactionExporterTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..dd090c25eab7d005fe66d4494a51c25b51734c2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/converter-sbml/src/test/java/lcsb/mapviewer/converter/model/sbml/reaction/SbmlReactionExporterTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+package lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.reaction;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.sbml.jsbml.Model;
+import org.sbml.jsbml.SBMLDocument;
+import org.sbml.jsbml.ext.layout.Dimensions;
+import org.sbml.jsbml.ext.layout.Layout;
+import org.sbml.jsbml.ext.layout.LayoutModelPlugin;
+
+import lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.SbmlBioEntityExporter;
+import lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.SbmlCompartmentExporter;
+import lcsb.mapviewer.converter.model.sbml.species.SbmlSpeciesExporter;
+import lcsb.mapviewer.model.map.InconsistentModelException;
+import lcsb.mapviewer.model.map.model.ModelFullIndexed;
+import lcsb.mapviewer.model.map.reaction.type.TriggerReaction;
+import lcsb.mapviewer.model.map.species.Species;
+
+public class SbmlReactionExporterTest {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testTriggerReactionToSbml() throws InconsistentModelException {
+    ModelFullIndexed model = new ModelFullIndexed(null);
+
+    SbmlReactionExporter exporter = createExporter(model);
+    org.sbml.jsbml.Reaction result = exporter.createSbmlElement(new TriggerReaction());
+    assertNotNull(result);
+  }
+
+  private SbmlReactionExporter createExporter(ModelFullIndexed model) {
+    SBMLDocument doc = new SBMLDocument(3, 1);
+    Model result = doc.createModel(model.getIdModel());
+    result.setName(model.getName());
+    LayoutModelPlugin plugin = new LayoutModelPlugin(result);
+
+    Layout layout = new Layout();
+    Dimensions dimensions = new Dimensions();
+    if (model.getHeight() != null) {
+      dimensions.setHeight(model.getHeight());
+    } else {
+      dimensions.setHeight(640);
+    }
+    if (model.getWidth() != null) {
+      dimensions.setWidth(model.getWidth());
+    } else {
+      dimensions.setWidth(480);
+    }
+    layout.setDimensions(dimensions);
+    plugin.add(layout);
+    result.addExtension("layout", plugin);
+
+    SbmlCompartmentExporter compartmentExporter = new SbmlCompartmentExporter(layout, model);
+    SbmlBioEntityExporter<Species, org.sbml.jsbml.Species> speciesExporter = new SbmlSpeciesExporter(layout, model,
+        compartmentExporter);
+
+    SbmlReactionExporter exporter = new SbmlReactionExporter(layout, model, speciesExporter, compartmentExporter);
+    exporter.setSbmlModel(result);
+    return exporter;
+  }
+
+}