Abstract
Autophagy is a complex degradative process by which cytosolic material, including organelles, is randomly sequestered within double-membrane bound vesicles termed autophagosomes and targeted for degradation. Initially described as a nutrient stress adaptation response, the process of autophagy is now recognized as a central mechanism involved in many developmental processes. In this chapter, we provide guidelines to assess the initial steps of autophagy by monitoring autophagic body vacuolar accumulation. We employed a standard electron microscopy approach to observe the vacuoles of nutrient stressed fungal cells.
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Nadal, M., Gold, S.E. (2012). Assessment of Autophagosome Formation by Transmission Electron Microscopy. In: Bolton, M., Thomma, B. (eds) Plant Fungal Pathogens. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 835. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-501-5_29
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