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A new study provides insight into the way plants integrate information from the environment to anticipate the onset of winter. Plants are able to combine information about light quality and ambient temperature to activate the cold- acclimation pathway.

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Figure 1: Phytochromes have a central role in coordinating responses to both light quality and the pathway that senses ambient temperature.

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  1. Vinod Kumar and Philip A. Wigge are in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, John Innes Centre, Norwich NR4 7UH, UK. philip.wigge@bbsrc.ac.uk,

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Kumar, V., Wigge, P. Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning. Nat Genet 39, 1309–1310 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1107-1309

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