“…Most studies have focused on the role of BBX proteins in the regulation of photomorphogenesis of Arabidopsis seedlings, involving positive regulators BBX4, BBX20, BBX21, BBX22 and BBX23 as well as negative regulators BBX18, BBX19, BBX24, BBX25, BBX28, BBX30, BBX31 and BBX32 (Holm et al ., 2001; Datta et al ., 2006, 2007, 2008; Indorf et al ., 2007; Chang et al ., 2008; Kumagai et al ., 2008; Khanna et al ., 2009; Holtan et al ., 2011; Wang et al ., 2011, 2015; Fan et al ., 2012; Gangappa et al ., 2013; Wei et al ., 2016; Zhang et al ., 2017; Lin et al ., 2018; D. Xu et al ., 2018; Heng et al ., 2019; Yadav et al ., 2019). BBX proteins are also involved in regulating thermomorphogenesis (Ding et al ., 2018), flowering (Putterill et al ., 1995; Robson et al ., 2001; Valverde et al ., 2004; Cheng & Wang, 2005; Kim et al ., 2008; Hassidim et al ., 2009; Lee et al ., 2010; Yang et al ., 2014; Ping et al ., 2019), shade avoidance response (Crocco et al ., 2010, 2015; H. Wang et al ., 2013), anthocyanin accumulation (An et al ., 2019, 2020b; Bai et al ., 2019; Fang et al ., 2019), carotenoid biosynthesis (Xiong et al ., 2019), leaf senescence (Y. Liu et al ., 2019), and biological and abiotic stress responses (Liu et al ., 2012; X. Liu et al ., 2019; Q. Wang et al ., 2013; Min et al ., 2014; Chu et al ., 2016; Zhang et al ., 2020). However, no reports have been published that demonstrate the involvement of BBX proteins in cold stress tolerance.…”