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Manasvi Lingampally

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Autophagy plays a crucial role in maintaining cellular homeostasis and recycling nutrients in response to various stress responses such as carbon limitation, oxidation, pathogen attacks and senescence. On the other hand, ethylene is a gaseous hormone that plays a role in plant growth and is best known for being a key factor for fruit ripening, root growth, senescence, and various stress responses. Both ethylene and autophagy are related to plant stress response and senescence but their relation to each other is not fully understood, and further research is needed to uncover their interaction in Arabidopsis thaliana. To reveal the relationship between ethylene and autophagy, the hypocotyl length was measured in different concentrations of 1- aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) with autophagy related mutants. The comparison of hypocotyl length between autophagy mutants and wild type revealed noticeable differences, implying a potential association between autophagy and ethylene. Further, to investigate the relation between autophagy and ethylene signaling, carbon starvation stress was applied to ethylene signaling mutants in combination with autophagy mutants, resulting in significantly different resistance to carbon limitation. These indications point to potential regulatory interaction between ethylene signaling and autophagy. Overall, these findings suggest a coordinated interplay between autophagy and ethylene as supported by the assessment of hypocotyl length and carbon starvation using different mutants. This contributes to the understanding of regulatory mechanisms underlying plant stress responses.

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Purdue University / 2023

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Manasvi Lingampally