Abstract
In plants, apoptosis-like programmed cell death (AL-PCD) is readily distinguished from other forms of programmed cell death (PCD) through a distinct morphology. Detection of cytochrome c release from mitochondria and changes in mitochondrial morphology are the earliest markers for detection of this form of PCD in plants. In this chapter we provide detailed technical methods for the visualization of both of these mitochondrial markers of AL-PCD in Arabidopsis.
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Reape, T.J., Kacprzyk, J., Brogan, N., Sweetlove, L., McCabe, P.F. (2015). Mitochondrial Markers of Programmed Cell Death in Arabidopsis thaliana . In: Whelan, J., Murcha, M. (eds) Plant Mitochondria. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1305. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2639-8_15
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