Co-ordination and divergence of cell-specific transcription and translation of genes in arabidopsis root cells

A key challenge in biology is to systematically investigate and integrate the different levels of information available at the global and single-cell level. Recent studies have elucidated spatiotemporal expression patterns of root cell types in Arabidopsis thaliana, and genome-wide quantification of polysome-associated mRNA levels, i.e. the translatome, has also been obtained for corresponding cell types. Translational control has been increasingly recognized as an important regulatory step in protein synthesis. The aim of this study was to investigate coupled transcription and translation by use of publicly available root datasets.