Seminar Dr. Céline Masclaux-Daubresse. Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Paris, France.

“Autophagy, chloroplast degradation and nutrient recycling “ Macroautophagy is induced during leaf senescence and in response to environmental stresses. Dedicated to cell clearance and organelle quality control, macroautophagy sequesters unwanted cytoplasmic material into vesicles named autophagosomes and drives  them to lytic vacuoles.  Facilitating cytoplasm clearance, it also facilitates macromolecule recycling and provides back small molecules […]