Understanding the Cellular Spatiotemporal Dogma by Spatial and Single-cell Omics
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Authors
- Keke Xia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2251-9180)
- Ziyi Zhang
- Chao Qin
Institutions
- BGI Group (China) (CN)
- Botswana Geoscience Institute (BW)
- Beijing University of Agriculture (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Experimental Botany
- Published
- 2026-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erag430
- Primary Topic
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00