Fig. 1

The outline representation of critical transition state by DNB based on time-series gene expression data. a The progression of Arabidopsis flower development from the time of initiation to maturation can be divided into three states, i.e., the before-transition state, the critical transition state, and the after-transition state. A system at the before-transition state or the after-transition state is stable with high resilience. b In the critical transition state, deviations of the DNB members increase drastically, and the correlation between any two molecules increases. This critical phenomenon does not appear at the before-transition and the after-transition states. c The DNB members show large fluctuations in their expressions at the critical transition state, compared with smaller fluctuations of the expressions at the before- or after- transition states