Organ identity shapes autophagy dynamics and selectivity in plants

Autophagy meets plant virology: From molecular crosstalk to outstanding challenges.

Beyond degradation: Dissecting autophagy-protease relationships in plant reproduction

This review challenges the common assumption that autophagy and proteases form a unified degradative pathway during plant reproduction, showing instead where they act independently, where they converge, and where true molecular coupling remains to be demonstrated, while defining key degradative checkpoints that shape f...

Selective Autophagy in Plant Immunity: Mechanisms, Regulation, and Emerging Concepts in Xenophagy.

This work synthesizes current advances in plant xenophagy and proposes a unifying framework in which xenophagy appears to function as a cell-autonomous immune hub comprising three interconnected modules: cargo recognition, selective sequestration, and autophagic execution, dynamically modulated by pathogen-derived coun...

Evolutionarily conserved selective autophagy pathways.

This review provides a detailed overview of seven major evolutionarily conserved selective autophagy pathways: mitophagy, xenophagy, pexophagy, lysophagy, ER-phagy, Golgiphagy, and ribophagy, building on data from four widely used model organisms.

Beyond parallel pathways: molecular integration and functional crosstalk between autophagy and endocytosis in plants.

The crosstalk of autophagy and metabolism in plants.

Autophagy in plants promotes cellular longevity and nutrient recycling by degrading unwanted organelles and damaged cytoplasmic components. This process is essential for plant stress tolerance and nutrient management. In all plant organs, autophagy plays a critical role in maintaining cellular homeostasis, and defects...