Both autophagy and programmed cell death (PCD) are fundamental processes of cellular
maintenance that are closely interrelated in plant and animal cells under physiological and …

Recent data has enabled discovery of novel functions of microtubules (MTs) in the
regulation of autophagy development under physiologic/stressful conditions in yeast and …

Microtubules (MTs) play an important role in the regulation of autophagy development in
yeast and animal as well as in plant cells. MTs participate in maturation and traffic of …

Highlights•Selective pathways and cellular crosstalk play important roles in plant
autophagy.•Autophagy mediates developmental vacuolar cell death while suppressing …

Autophagy is a highly conserved cell degradation process that widely exists in eukaryotic
cells. In plants, autophagy helps maintain cellular homeostasis by degrading and recovering …

Autophagy plays an important role in plant growth and development, pathogen invasion and
modulates plant response and adaptation to various abiotic stress stimuli. The biogenesis …

Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is a cellular mechanism dedicated to
the degradation and recycling of unnecessary cytosolic components by their removal to the …

Autophagy is a highly conserved degradation process in eukaryotes, whereby cytoplasmic
material is sequestered in vesicles and delivered to the lysosome or vacuole for breakdown …

Autophagy is an evolutionary conserved pathway of vacuolar degradation of cytoplasmic
constituents. The characteristic feature of the pathway is double membrane bound …

Programmed cell death (PCD) involves precise integration of cellular responses to
extracellular and intracellular signals during both stress and development. In recent years …