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Disposal of chloroplasts with abnormal function into the vacuole in Arabidopsis thaliana cotyledon cells.
Protoplasma - 1 Jun 2004
Niwa Yasuo, Kato Tomohiko, Tabata Satoshi, Seki Motoaki, Kobayashi Masatomo, Shinozaki Kazuo, Moriyasu Yuji
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Autophagy is a process in which cell membrane rearrangement allows for the sequestration and degradation of part of the cytoplasm. Many protein components of the autophagic mechanism and their corresponding genes have been identified in yeast cells by molecular genetics, and this has enabled researchers to identify homologues of these genes in mammalian and plant systems. Autophagy is involved in the starvation...
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