New Insight into Signaling and Autophagy in Plants 2.0
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 32250
Special Issue Editors
Interests: abiotic and biotic stress; autophagy; cell signaling; cyclic nucleotides; uncommon nucleotides; molecular plant physiology; plant biochemistry; plant biotechnology; plant cell biology; plant molecular biology; plant tissue culture; signal transduction pathways
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Interests: autophagy; autophagic body degradation; plant physiology and biochemistry; programmed cell death (PCD); pexophagy; seed metabolism; selective autophagy; sugar starvation; seed development and germination; storage lipid metabolism; uncommon nucleotides; vacuolar processing enzymes (VPE); vacuole
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
During the entirety of ontogenesis, plants are forced to sense signals and react and 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 to 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 understood.
One of the processes that enable plants to respond efficiently to a changing environment, both internal and external, is autophagy. The efficient functioning of autophagy ensures 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 and 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
Dr. Sławomir Borek
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Autophagy cargo receptors
- Autophagy in plant development
- Autophagy in plant stress
- Crosstalk between autophagy and phytohormones
- Plant cell homeostasis
- Nutrients recycling
- Plant cell biology
- Plant signal transduction
- Selective autophagy
- Signaling molecules
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