Autophagy as an emerging arena for plant-pathogen interactions

Abstract

Autophagy is a highly conserved degradation and recycling process that controls cellular homeostasis, stress adaptation, and programmed cell death in eukaryotes. Emerging evidence indicates that autophagy is a key regulator of plant innate immunity and contributes with both pro-death and pro-survival functions to antimicrobial defences, depending on the pathogenic lifestyle. In turn, several pathogens have co-opted and evolved strategies to manipulate host autophagy pathways to the benefit of infection, while some eukaryotic microbes require their own autophagy machinery for successful pathogenesis. In this review, we present and discuss recent advances that exemplify the important role of pro- and antimicrobial autophagy in plant pathogen interactions.

Published in

Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2017, Volume: 38, pages: 117-123 Publisher: CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD

SLU Authors

• Hofius, Daniel

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hafrén, Anders

  • Department of Plant Biology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

Associated SLU-program

SLU Plant Protection Network
AMR: Bacteria


UKÄ Subject classification

Cell Biology


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbi.2017.04.017

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