AUTOPHAGY IN PLANTS: THE SECRET MECHANISM THAT ENSURES THEIR SURVIVAL

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https://doi.org/10.24310/enbio.17.191.2025.20514

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Autophagy, Plants, Stress, Development, Environmental conditions

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Plants are sessile organisms, meaning they must face various challenges to ensure their survival, such as predation and environmental conditions. To cope with these challenges, they have developed different mechanisms throughout evolution, with autophagy being a notable one. Autophagy is a metabolic process that allows the removal of unwanted cellular content and the recycling of nutrients. This article explains the types of autophagy in plants and its stages, as well as the various roles it plays in plant development, metabolism, and stress responses.

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2025-09-29

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AUTOPHAGY IN PLANTS: THE SECRET MECHANISM THAT ENSURES THEIR SURVIVAL. (2025). Encuentros En La Biología, 17(191). https://doi.org/10.24310/enbio.17.191.2025.20514