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DNA repair meets climate change

A direct link between DNA repair and heat tolerance has been revealed in Arabidopsis thaliana.

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Fig. 1: Model for the occurrence of thermotolerance by HOS1-mediated DNA damage response activation.

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Dorn, A., Puchta, H. DNA repair meets climate change. Nat. Plants 6, 1398–1399 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-00804-x

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