Fig. 3
Transcriptomic analysis of lace plant leaf developmental stages. Top: Four main clusters grouped by highest expression in respective pre-perforation (P), window (W), mature (M) and imperforate (I) leaf stage biological replicates (n = 3). For each cluster, individual DEG expression values (shown as the transformed log2(FPKM + 1) values) are plotted as grey lines and the mean expression profile is highlighted in blue. The total number of DEGs per cluster is shown below each plot (P < 0.01, fold change > 2.0). Bottom: Heatmaps of composite gene expression for indicated proteins, with green and red corresponding to high and low gene expression, respectively. Supporting data are found in Additional file 3