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Mutations that affect cold hardiness, if their effects are specific, identify proteins that help to protect plant cells against chilling or freezing. This offers an approach to cold hardiness complementary to the study of low temperature-induced genes and the cold signal transduction pathway. The approaches have different limitations. The mutational approach will not discover functions for which there is genetic redundancy — for example, it would be unlikely to have identified the CBF transcription factor genes in Arabidopsis. On the other hand, the inducibility approach will miss any mechanisms of hardiness that are constitutive.
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Warren, G.J., Thorlby, G.J., Bramke, I. (2002). Mutants Deficient in Cold Hardiness. In: Li, P.H., Palva, E.T. (eds) Plant Cold Hardiness. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0711-6_2
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