Light and temperature cues: multitasking receptors and transcriptional integrators

What is it about?

Light and temperature share the control of key aspects of plant growth and development; therefore, the information provided by these environmental cues has to converge at some point of the signalling process. Recent findings demonstrate that the integration of simultaneous cues can occur at the receptor itself. However, when one cues is delayed with respect to the other, each cue initiates separate pathways where the information is stored to converge at a later stage.

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