The process in which peroxisomes are delivered to a type of vacuole and degraded in response to changing nutrient conditions. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10547367 GOC : autophagy http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20083110 ]
Term information
- peroxisome degradation
- biological_process
- pexophagy
- GO:0030242