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TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE
Volume 25, Issue 10, Pages 1041-1051Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.04.017
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Gene expression in individual cells can be surprisingly noisy. In unicellular organisms this noise can be functional; for example, by allowing a subfraction of the population to prepare for environmental stress. The role of gene expression noise in multicellular organisms has, however, remained unclear. In this review, we discuss how new techniques are revealing an unexpected level of variability in gene expression between and within genetically identical plants. We describe recent progress as well as speculate on the function of transcriptional noise as a mechanism for generating functional phenotypic diversity in plants.
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