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Organisms have developed specialized and intricate mechanisms to cope with environmental threats that depend on their natural habitat and ability to move. _Arabidopsis_ demonstrates an
impressive adaptation using cryptochrome 1 to maintain genomic stability through a blue-light-mediated process that involves the recruitment of repair proteins to double-strand breaks.
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