On 29^th November, Plant Physiology online published a research paper entitled “Stage-specific gene profiling of germinal cells helps delineate the mitosis/meiosis transition” from Prof. Weihua Tang’s group at CAS Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences/Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology(SIPPE),Chinese Academy of Science(CAS).This study revealsthe transcriptome dynamics of genrminal cells undergoing the mitosis-meiosis switch and pinpoints crucial tuming poinstsfor this transtition.

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