Polyploidy drives autophagy to participate in plant‐specific functions
Moyang Liu, Ming Yang, Heng Liang, Bote Luo, Junjie Deng, Lingyan Cao, Daojun Zheng, Cheng Chen · 2024
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Moyang Liu and co-authors ask how extra sets of chromosomes reshaped one of the cell's housekeeping systems in plants, in a study published in 2024. Autophagy recycles worn cell parts, and in plants it has taken on extra jobs such as splitting chloroplasts and timing flowering. Whole-genome duplication, or polyploidy, copies every gene at once, giving such systems new material to specialize.
The team catalogued nearly ninety-three thousand autophagy-associated genes across seventy-seven plant species, including Arabidopsis, tomato, and oil tea. About 46 percent of those genes traced back to polyploid events. The pattern suggests that chromosome doubling repeatedly expanded the autophagy toolkit, letting it branch into plant-specific tasks. The work links genome history to the division of labor inside plant cells.
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| CREATOR | Moyang Liu, Ming Yang, Heng Liang, Bote Luo, Junjie Deng, Lingyan Cao, Daojun Zheng, Cheng Chen |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |