Autophagy in plants and algae

• Auteur principal: Jose L. Crespo (auth)
• Autres auteurs: Diane C. Bassham (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Collection: Frontiers Research Topics
• Sujets: Botany & plant sciences; Lipid degradation; selective autophagy; pexophagy; algae; Plants
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Autophagy (also known as macroautophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved process by which cytoplasmic components are nonselectively enclosed within a double-membrane vesicle known as the autophagosome and delivered to the vacuole for degradation of toxic components and recycling of needed nutrients....