Light signals mediate a number of physiological and developmental processes in plants, such as flowering, photomorphogenesis, and pigment accumulation. Emerging evidence has revealed that a group of B‐box proteins (BBXs) function as central players in these light‐mediated developmental processes. B‐box proteins are a class of zinc‐coordinated transcription factors or regulators that not only directly mediate the transcription of target genes but also interact with various other factors to create a complex regulatory network involved in the precise control of plant growth and development. This review summarizes and highlights the recent findings concerning the critical regulatory functions of BBXs in photoperiodic flowering, light signal transduction and light‐induced pigment accumulation and their molecular modes of action at the transcriptional and post‐translational levels in plants

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B-box蛋白：植物在光介导的发育中的关键作用。

光信号介导植物中的许多生理和发育过程，例如开花，光形态发生和色素积聚。新兴证据表明，在这些光介导的发育过程中，一组B-box蛋白（BBX）发挥着核心作用。B-box蛋白是一类锌配位的转录因子或调节剂，它不仅直接介导目标基因的转录，而且还与其他各种因子相互作用，从而形成复杂的调节网络，参与精确控制植物的生长和发育。这篇综述总结并强调了有关BBX在光周期开花中的关键调控功能的最新发现，