“…Next, to test whether the DEGs are closely related to cold response, we checked their possible gene functions through gene function annotation and literature mining. Indeed, we observed that many of them are directly involved in plant cold response or cold acclimation process, including genes encoding superoxide dismutase (SOD) (Lin et al, 2019), VERNALIZATION INSENSITIVE 3(VIN3) (Zhao et al, 2020), transcription factor LUX (Chow et al, 2014), RNA-binding protein CP29B (Kupsch et al, 2012), flavanone 3-dioxygenase 3 (Wu et al, 2023), and dehydration-responsive element-binding protein 2E (DREB2E) (Agarwal et al, 2017), etc. Also, many genes annotated as cold response or cold induced genes are observed among these DEGs (Table S6 and S7).…”