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What can plant autophagy do for an innate immune response?
Annual review of phytopathology - 1 Jan 2011
Hayward Andrew P, Dinesh-Kumar S P
Abstract excerpt
Autophagy plays an established role in the execution of senescence, starvation, and stress responses in plants. More recently, an emerging role for autophagy has been discovered during the plant innate immune response. Recent papers have shown autophagy to restrict, and conversely, to also promote programmed cell death (PCD) at the site of pathogen infection. These initial studies have piqued our excitement, but...
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