Now Swedish researchers have found a way to gain insights in this tree transitioning from vegetative organ development towards cone development. Key to this was the development of a technique they called spatial transcriptomics.
Tag Archives: Gene expression
Seed banks shape gene drive outcomes
Seeds have this amazing ability to lay dormant in the soil for many years. As such, although genes are transferred from one generation to the next, that next generation isn’t always directly following the previous one. This makes studying the outcome of plant reproduction more complex. Now a new paper in Nature Plants shows how seed dormancy influences the success of gene drives.
A genetic roadmap of a barley spikelet
The development of barley spikelts goes accompanied with lots of genetic decisions. To get more insight into this, German researchers created a genetic roadmap of the developing barley spikelet.
Fluctuating genes
There is a lot more noise than assumed in gene expression. Nevertheless, organisms still manage to develop complex organs. As American researchers show in Nature Communications.
