Table 1.

General description of stress responses controlled by cryptochromes in plants.

Species	Type of stress	Cryptochrome	Stress response	Reference
Arabidopsis thaliana	Drought	cry1, cry2	COP1, a repressor of stomatal opening is downregulates by crys	Mao et al., 2005
	Drought and Salinity	cry1, cry2	Cryptochromes-induced altered expression of stress/ABA-responsive genes	Xu and Ma, 2009; Xu et al., 2009
	Salinity	cry1	Overexpression of SbCRY1a confers oversensitive to salt stress	Zhou et al., 2018
	High-light	cry1, cry2	Cryptochromes inaffects chloroplast light-harvesting complex and redox equilibrium of photosynthetic apparatus	Walters et al., 1999; Weston et al., 2000
		cry1, cry2	Cryptochromes promotes the transcription of ROS-responsive genes	Chen et al., 2013
		cry1	Singlet oxygen–related programmed cell death is coordinated by cry1	Danon et al., 2006
		cry1, cry2	SIG5 modulates chloroplast transcripts in a cryptochromes-dependent manner	Belbin et al., 2017
		cry1	Cry1 promote the photoprotective genes expression under excessive radiation	Kleine et al., 2007; Shaikhali et al., 2012
	Heat	cry1	PIF4 interact with cry1 controlling hypocotyl elongation under high temperature	Ma et al., 2016
	Cold	–	Cryptochromes share transcription factors with cold acclimatization mechanisms	Catalá et al., 2011
	Biotic	cry1	Cry1 play a role in plant defense against pathogen attack	Zhou et al., 2017
Brassica napus	Drought and Salinity	cry1	Several osmotic stress responsive genes are downregulates by cry1	Sharma et al., 2014
Solanum lycopersicum	High-light	cry1, cry2	Cryptochromes modulates a classic high-light stress response, the anthocyanin biosynthesis	Giliberto et al., 2005; Liu et al., 2018b