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Vol. 93, Issue 22, 12094-12097, October 29, 1996
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology,
University of Colorado, Campus Box 347, Boulder, CO 80309
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.
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