Autophagy: Pathways for self-eating in plant cells

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 215-237

  Liu, Yimo ^a   Bassham, Diane C ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abiotic stress; pathogen; programmed cell death; senescence; TOR

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; FUNGUS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; YEAST;

APOPTOSIS; AUTOPHAGY; FUNGI; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PHENOTYPE; PLANT CELLS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; UBIQUITINS; YEASTS;

EID: 84865859612     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042811-105441     Document Type: Review

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