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Programmed cell death: a way of life for plants.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ·Vol. 93 ·No. 22 ·1996-10-29 ·Pages 12094-7

Greenberg JT

Abstract

Cell death in higher plants has been widely observed in predictable patterns throughout development and in response to pathogenic infection. Genetic, biochemical, and morphological evidence suggests that these cell deaths occur as active processes and can be defined formally as examples of programmed cell death (PCD). Intriguingly, plants have at least two types of PCD, an observation that is also true of PCD in animals [Schwartz, L. M., Smith, W.W., Jones, M. E. E. & Osborne, B. A. (1993) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 980-984]. Thus, in plants, PCD resembles either a common form of PCD seen in animals called apoptosis or it resembles a morphologically distinct form of cell death. The ubiquitous occurrence and necessity of PCD for plant development and defense suggest that the underlying mechanisms of regulation and execution of these processes merit further examination.

MeSH Terms
Apoptosis/physiology Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins/genetics,physiology Plant Cells Plant Physiological Phenomena Plants/genetics Reproduction Time Factors
Chemicals
Bacterial Outer Membrane Proteins harpin protein, Erwinia amylovora HrpZ protein, Pseudomonas syringae
Authors & Affiliations
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Greenberg J T
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80309, USA. [email protected]
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Article Info
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Abbr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
ISSN
0027-8424
DOI
10.1073/pnas.93.22.12094
Email
[email protected]
Published
1996-10-29
Pages
12094-7
Language
English
Region
United States
NLM ID
7505876
PMCID
PMC37948
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.22.12094 PMC Full Text View journal details
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