Widespread inter-individual gene expression variability in Arabidopsis thaliana.

ABSTRACT: A fundamental question in biology is how gene expression is regulated to give rise to a phenotype. However, transcriptional variability is rarely considered although it could influence the relationship between genotype and phenotype. It is known in unicellular organisms that gene expression is often noisy rather than uniform, and this has been proposed to be beneficial when environmental conditions are unpredictable. However, little is known about inter-individual transcriptional variability in multicellular organisms. Using transcriptomic approaches, we analysed gene expression variability between individual Arabidopsis thaliana plants growing in identical conditions over a 24-h time course. We identified hundreds of genes that exhibit high inter-individual variability and found th

SUBMITTER: Cortijo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6346214 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature