Some plants have acquired traits of remarkable adaptive value to thrive under stress. Transferring these traits to crops could improve agriculture, but uncovering the toolkit required has remained largely elusive. We propose that single-cell genomics offers a framework to compare species with contrasting developmental traits and to identify the regulators of evolutionary innovations.
Keywords: comparative transcriptomics; plant development; single-cell genomics.
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