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Review: Temperature sensing in plants

Like all organisms, plants respond to changes in temperature by activating pathways that enable them to stay alive in spite of rising or lowering temperatures. Interestingly though, there is no universal temperature sensing mechanism across the domains of life. Changes in membrane fluidity (think of…

Two ABA-responsive transcription factors reset the requirement for vernalization by re-activating FLOWERING LOCUS C in embryos

Xu et al. identify two transcription factors that activate FLOWERING LOCUS C during embryogenesis, thus re-setting the requirement for vernalization. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac077  By Guokai Xu, Zeng Tao and Yuehui He Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences Peking-Tsinghua…