Plants (Aug 2020)

Autophagy Dances with Phytohormones upon Multiple Stresses

  • Yifan Li,
  • Yanni Lin,
  • Xi Li,
  • Shaoying Guo,
  • Yifeng Huang,
  • Qingjun Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9081038
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 8
p. 1038

Abstract

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Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved process for turning over unwanted cellular components, thus promoting nutrient recycling and maintaining cellular homeostasis, which eventually enables plants to survive unfavorable growth conditions. In addition to plant growth and development, previous studies have demonstrated that autophagy is involved in the responses to various environmental challenges through interplaying with multiple phytohormones, including abscisic acid (ABA), jasmonic acid (JA), and salicylic acid (SA). In this review, we summarize the advances made in their synergistic interactions in response to multiple abiotic and biotic stresses; we also discuss the remaining issues and perspectives regarding their crosstalk.

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