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Profiling the endosperm, one nucleus at a time

The single-nucleus transcriptional atlas of Arabidopsis endosperm reveals variation in gene imprinting across endosperm compartments and cell cycle stages, and provides new evidence for the role of imprinting in balancing resource allocation in the developing seed.

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Fig. 1: Single-nucleus transcriptomics of Arabidopsis endosperm identifies transcriptional signatures of the four endosperm compartments (the micropylar domain, peripheral domain and chalazal domain, which contains the chalazal nodules and chalazal cysts).

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Tanurdžić, M. Profiling the endosperm, one nucleus at a time. Nat. Plants 7, 710–711 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-00945-7

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