Hong Zhang

TL;DR: These guidelines are presented for the selection and interpretation of methods for use by investigators who aim to examine macroautophagy and related processes, as well as for reviewers who need to provide realistic and reasonable critiques of papers that are focused on these processes.

TL;DR: High sulfate content ulvans had more effective scavenging activity on hydroxyl radical than natural ulvan and exhibited stronger reducing power and metal chelating ability than other samples.

TL;DR: The plant growth hormone auxin, which acts as a versatile trigger in many developmental processes, also plays a critical role in seed dormancy in Arabidopsis, and it is shown that disruptions in auxin signaling in MIR160-overexpressing plants, auxin receptor mutants, or auxin biosynthesis mutants dramatically release Seed dormancy, whereas increases in Auxin signaling or biosynthesis greatly enhance seed dormancies.

TL;DR: This study establishes C. elegans as a multicellular genetic model to delineate the autophagy pathway and provides mechanistic insights into the metazoan-specific autophagic process.

TL;DR: It is shown that several maternally derived germ P granule components are selectively eliminated by autophagy in somatic cells during C. elegans embryogenesis, revealing a mechanism for preferential degradation of protein aggregates by Autophagy and emphasizing the physiological significance of selective autophagic during animal development.