Víctor Sánchez de Medina Hernández

The paper identifies a conserved selective autophagy receptor, CESAR, critical for proteostasis under heat stress in plants through cross-species interactome analysis.

This study identifies two phospholipases, LCAT3 and LCAT4, that work together to hydrolyze autophagic bodies in plant cells, completing the autophagy pathway.

This study shows that metabolic enzymes act as autophagy receptors in plants to degrade defense executors during viral infection, revealing autophagy as a tolerance pathway rather than an antiviral defense.