Plant stress responses (IMAGE)

Purdue University

Plant stress responses

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Plants respond to stress with autophagy (self-cannibalism) as well as with ethylene. The Arabidopsis plant at far left is a wild type. The others are various ethylene response mutants that have differing levels of autophagy responses to stress. 

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Photo provided by Hye Lin Park, Purdue University

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