Fig. 3. The leaf primordium and its ligule possess rim cells juxtaposed between adaxial–abaxial domains.
a, Expression pattern of Lg1, arrow indicates subset of Lg1+ rim cells. Arrow indicates rim cell cluster. b, Overlap between upregulated genes in leaf-rim cells and previously collected developing leaf rim and ligule RNA-seq dataset. Numbers indicate fold enrichment and P values are the result of a hypergeometric test. c–e, RNA in situ hybridization of abaxial (Arf3a) (c), rim (Ns1/2) (d) and adaxial (Phb) (e) patterning genes in longitudinal sections of the developing ligule (arrowheads) at the midrib–central domain (c,e) and marginal domain (d). f–h, Expression of the same indicated patterning genes in median longitudinal sections of the shoot apex (f,h) and transverse (g) sections of the stem. Scale bars, 100 μm. i, RNA in situ hybridization of Wox3a/b transcripts (arrowhead) in a longitudinal section of the developing ligule at the midrib (central) domain and the leaf rim in the marginal domain (arrows). Scale bar, 100 μm. For micrograph data, n = 3. j, Scheme for assigning cells to adaxial, abaxial and mixed cell-identity categories. k, Colour-coded cell-type identities in the UMAP projection. l, Breakdown of cell identities among all cells, rim cells and ligule cells. Cell numbers are in bold, fold enrichment and associated P values for subpopulations compared with all cells in the dataset are the output of a two-sided hypergeometric test. FC, fold change; FDR, false discovery rate.
