Opportunities and Challenges in Advancing Plant Research with Single-cell Omics

Overview

Journal Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics

Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Jul 12

PMID 38996445

Authors

Mohammad Saidur Rhaman

Muhammad Ali

Wenxiu Ye

Bosheng Li

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Abstract

Plants possess diverse cell types and intricate regulatory mechanisms to adapt to the ever-changing environment of nature. Various strategies have been employed to study cell types and their developmental progressions, including single-cell sequencing methods which provide high-dimensional catalogs to address biological concerns. In recent years, single-cell sequencing technologies in transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and spatial transcriptomics have been increasingly used in plant science to reveal intricate biological relationships at the single-cell level. However, the application of single-cell technologies to plants is more limited due to the challenges posed by cell structure. This review outlines the advancements in single-cell omics technologies, their implications in plant systems, future research applications, and the challenges of single-cell omics in plant systems.

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