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Cell senescence and death in plants

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Cell death in biology and pathology

Abstract

In spite of the wide-spread occurrence of cell death in plants, the phenomenon is a topic rarely discussed in textbooks of plant anatomy or physiology. It is implicated extensively in the death of whole plants, e. g. monocarpic plants which reproduce once only and die, or polycarpic plants which reproduce either a few or many times before dying, and with the death of parts of polycarpic plants. This latter point is seen in the case of flower, leaf and fruit fall, bark-shedding or with the loss of the shoot after reproduction in some herbaceous plants. In addition, cell death is involved in both morphogenesis and a number of normal physiological events in cryptogams and phanerogams (Table 5.1). It is the aim of this chapter to consider the possible mechanisms leading to cell death, the involvement of cell death in the various, normal events in plants, and the ways in which cell death might be determined in various cell populations. Many of the examples quoted will be from flowering plants, since it is in this domain that most work has been performed. Space will not permit an extensive treatment of the literature and, instead, as many and varied examples as possible will be used to illustrate the points under discussion.

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Gahan, P.B. (1981). Cell senescence and death in plants. In: Bowen, I.D., Lockshin, R.A. (eds) Cell death in biology and pathology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6921-9_6

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