Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Stochastic gene expression in Arabidopsis thaliana

  • Ilka Schultheiß Araújo,
  • Jessica Magdalena Pietsch,
  • Emma Mathilde Keizer,
  • Bettina Greese,
  • Rachappa Balkunde,
  • Christian Fleck,
  • Martin Hülskamp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02285-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Noisy gene expression can cause stochasticity in the expression of plant traits. Here, Araújo et al. use a dual reporter system of protein expression in Arabidopsis to show that expression noise is lowest in stomata relative to other tissues and that leaf cells are coupled with respect to noise.