A family of metabolite damage-control phosphatases modulates ROS-induced autophagy and plant stress resilience
Florentine Ballhaus, Viviana Vella, Yong Zou, Glenn R. Hicks, Jacob J. Whittaker, Adrian Suárez Covarrubias, Flavio Ballante, Ali Ata Moazzami, Igor Sabljić, Mary A Nishiotis, Annette Roos, Selvaraju Kanagarajan, Stina Berglund Fick, Weixing Qian, Gustav Nestor, , Adrian N. Dauphinee
This study identifies RMDPi-1 as an autophagy enhancer that inhibits RMDP phosphatases, increasing ROS and autophagy in plants, thereby improving stress resilience.
bioRxiv · Sep 29, 2026 · PreprintPlant Biology