Functions and Regulation of Programmed Cell Death in Plant Development

• Published in: Annual review of cell and developmental biology Vol. 32; p. 441
• Main Authors: Daneva, Anna, Gao, Zhen, Van Durme, Matthias, Nowack, Moritz K
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 06.10.2016
• Subjects: Apoptosis; Cellular Senescence; Plant Cells - metabolism; Plant Development; Reproduction; senescence; plant development; apoptosis; differentiation; programmed cell death; transcriptional networks

Programmed cell death (PCD) is a collective term for diverse processes causing an actively induced, tightly controlled cellular suicide. PCD has a multitude of functions in the development and health of multicellular organisms. In comparison to intensively studied forms of animal PCD such as apoptos...