“…Numerous genes have been reported to be differentially expressed during the leaf senescence process [44], and many SAGs have been verified to be involved in leaf senescence [33,34,[45][46][47][48][49]. The detected SAGs of PIFs (PIF3, PIF34, and PIF35), SENs (SEN1 and SEN4), transcription factors (TFs; WRKY6, NAC2, and NAP), and cell death-related genes (PDCD5 and ACD1), showed significant abundant accumulation in the Arabidopsis ao1-1 mutant (Figure 8, Supplementary Figure S1), indicating that the function of AO is closely associated with the expression of these genes.…”