New Insight into Signaling and Autophagy in Plants 3.0

Dear Colleagues,

During the entirety of ontogenesis, plants are forced to sense signals and react as well as adapt to changing and often adverse environmental conditions. Intracellular signal networks are involved in activating, regulating, and silencing various plant responses to environmental stimuli. Plants must also possess systems that exchange information throughout the entire organism to ensure the coordination of development and defense. The signaling systems transmitting this information are complex and involve multiple components, which are far from being fully understood.

One of the processes that enable plants to respond efficiently to changing environments, both internal and external, is autophagy. The efficient functioning of autophagy ensures the proper growth and development of plants at every stage of ontogenesis. Under normal conditions autophagy is a housekeeping process, allowing the recycling of damaged or unnecessary organelles and protein complexes, and, under various types of biotic and abiotic stresses, can be an essential element of plant defense responses. The autophagic turnover of organelles and protein complexes occurs in a controlled and selective manner. The attention of many scientists is currently focused on identifying the elements of signaling pathways in addition to the mechanisms of marking, recognizing, and directing particular cell components to autophagic degradation in the vacuole.

This Special Issue will publish original research papers, reviews, short reviews, opinion articles, and hypotheses within the scope of the newest discoveries in signaling and autophagy in plants. In particular, we welcome papers showing molecular data on signal perception and transduction as well as selective types of autophagy in plants.

Dr. Małgorzata Pietrowska-Borek
Prof. Dr. Sławomir Borek
Guest Editors

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