By transcriptome data from the leaves of rice plants in a paddy field along with the corresponding meteorological data and genomic information, statistical models were developed for endogenous and external influences on gene expression and prediction of rice leave formation
Atsushi J Nagano et al., doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2012.10.048,
Team at National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences uses transcriptome data to predict time of rice leaf formation in rice paddies