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Noisy gene atlas to help reveal how plants ‘hedge their bets’ in race for survival

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Plant scientists have built a gene expression atlas that maps the ‘noisy genes’ of genetically identical plants. This is helping to explain why ‘twin’ plants, with identical genes, grown in identical environments continue to display unique characteristics all of their own.