"Revolutionary Discovery Revives Near-Death Plants"
Researchers at UC Riverside have discovered the pivotal role of the Golgi body and COG protein in plant aging, finding that a damaged Golgi can lead to plant aging and death. By studying mutant plants that could not produce the COG protein, the researchers observed accelerated aging when the plants were deprived of light, but were able to reverse the aging process by reintroducing the COG protein. This breakthrough has potential implications for understanding aging processes in humans, as all eukaryotic organisms, including humans, have Golgi bodies in their cells.