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Brookhaven Lab Plant Biochemists

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Changcheng Xu (rear, left), Linhui Yu, and Jilian Fan (seated) with Arabidopsis plants they used to study the role of autophagy, or "self-eating," in oil biosynthesis and the breakdown of lipid droplets at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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