The people behind the papers - Tatsuaki Goh, Kaoru Sakamoto and Keiji Nakajima

During root development, the cells in the root cap transition from having a gravity-sensing function to becoming secretory cells and finally being shed. A new paper in Development describes the spatiotemporal dynamics of this process at both the cellular and subcellular levels, and identifies a key role for autophagy in organelle rearrangement and cell shedding. To find out more about the research, we caught up with first author Kaoru Sakamoto, first and corresponding author Tatsuaki Goh, Assistant Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), and corresponding author Keiji Nakajima, Professor at NAIST.