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Take a cold flower

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Recent work shows that one pathway to flowering involves a complex that modulates the chromatin structure of the flowering repressor FLOWERING LOCUS C and that a component of this flowering complex is also involved in regulation of a cold-response gene.

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Figure 1: Regulation of expression of FLC and cold-regulated genes.

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