Programmed cell death in plants / edited by John Gray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, John, 1965-

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Biological sciences series (Oxford, England)

Biological sciences series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plant cells and tissues.

Plant physiology.

Cell death.

Plant cell biotechnology.

Apoptosis--physiology.

Genes, Plant--physiology.

Medical Subjects:

Apoptosis--physiology.

Genes, Plant--physiology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Blackwell ; Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 2004.

Contents:

1 Paradigms of the evolution of programmed cell death / John Gray 1

1.2 PCD in prokaryotes 2

1.2.1 Mother cell lysis during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis 3

1.2.2 Regulation of cell suicide in antibiotic-producing bacteria 3

1.2.3 PCD in bacterial aggregates of Myxococcus xanthus 6

1.2.4 PCD in cyanobacteria 6

1.3 PCD in unicellular eukaryotes 7

1.3.1 PCD during sporulation in Dictyostelium discoideum 8

1.3.2 PCD in the amitochondrial Trichomonas vaginalis 9

1.3.3 PCD in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) 10

1.3.4 PCD in Trypansoma, Leishmania, and Tetrahymena 11

1.4 PCD in multicellular eukaryotes 13

1.4.1 Type I PCD (apoptosis) 14

1.4.2 Type II PCD (autophagy) 15

1.5 PCD pathways in plants 17

2 Paradigms of programmed cell death in animals and plants / Martin B. Dickman, John C. Reed 26

2.2 Cell suicide: a genetically programmed response 27

2.2.1 Caspases 29

2.2.2 Endogenous caspase inhibitors 30

2.2.3 Receptor-mediated pathways for PCD 31

2.2.4 Mitochondria and cell death 32

2.2.5 Bcl-2 family 33

2.3 Comparative biology: perspectives of plant apoptosis 35

3 Programmed cell death during seed development and germination / Daniel R. Gallie 44

3.2 Cell death during pistil development 45

3.2.1 Pistil cell death during maize floral development 45

3.3 Cell death during megasporogenesis 49

3.4 Cell death during embryogenesis 50

3.4.1 Scutellar cell death 51

3.4.2 Death of the suspensor 53

3.4.3 Nucellar death/nucellar projection formation 54

3.4.4 Endosperm cell death 55

3.5 Cell death of seed tissues during germination 61

3.5.1 Aleurone cell death 61

3.5.2 Scutellum death during germination 63

4 Programmed cell death events during reproductive development / C. Daniel Riggs 71

4.2 Sex determination in plants 71

4.2.1 PCD events specific to male reproduction 75

4.2.2 PCD events of female reproductive development 82

4.3 The role of mitochondria in PCD 88

4.4 PCD events associated with pollen/pistil interactions 91

4.5 Conspectus 97

5 Programmed cell death in development of plant vegetative tissue (leaf and root) / Martin Huelskamp, Arp Schnittger 106

5.3 Brief summary of cell-cycle and cell-growth control in plants 107

5.4 Coupling mechanisms of cell death and growth control in animal development 110

5.5 Growth and cell death during plant development 112

5.5.1 Determined cell death 112

5.5.2 Conditional cell death 115

5.5.3 Ethylene 117

5.6 Growth control and cell death in plant pathogen response 117

5.6.1 Mutants with a constitutive pathogen response 118

5.6.2 Growth arrest

a prerequisite for cell death? 119

5.6.3 Salicylic acids controls cell growth and cell survival 121

5.7 Targeting of cell-cycle and cell growth regulators

a direct link to cell-death control? 122

5.7.1 Downregulation of AtPTEN1 122

5.7.2 Misexpression of E2F 123

5.7.3 Misexpression of CDK inhibitors 123

5.8 Perspective 124

6 Programmed cell death in xylem differentiation / Keisuke Obara, Hiroo Fukuda 131

6.2 In vitro culture system as a powerful tool for the study of TE PCD 131

6.3 Cytological features of the PCD process 134

6.3.1 Morphological aspects of PCD in TE differentiation 134

6.3.2 Comparison of the morphological features of TE PCD with animal apoptosis 135

6.4 Initiation and progression of PCD 136

6.5 Vacuole rupture

a critical step in PCD 138

6.5.1 Rupture of the central vacuole as a connecting event between the induction and autolytic process of PCD 138

6.5.2 Mechanism of vacuole rupture 139

6.6 Autolytic process

orchestrated degradation of cellular contents after vacuole rupture 140

6.6.1 Rapid degradation of the nucleus after vacuole rupture 140

6.6.2 Nucleases 142

6.6.3 Proteases 143

6.6.4 Degradation of cell walls 145

6.7 Possible overlap with some other plant PCDs, during developmental processes 146

7 Programmed cell death in plant senescence / Diego Orzaez, Antonio Granell 155

7.2 Senescence and organ senescence as forms of PCD 155

7.3 The onset: cell sensitivity to senescence 157

7.4 The senescent cell morphotype 158

7.5 Molecular phenotype of senescing tissues 164

7.5.1 The nutrient salvage subprogram 164

7.5.2 The cell preservation subprogram

protection against oxidative stress 166

7.5.3 The cell preservation subprogram

protection against opportunistic pathogens 167

7.6 The senescence pathway: a transcriptional activation cascade in senescence PCD? 168

7.7 The senescence/PCD pathway: other elements of the upstream senescence signaling pathway 170

7.8 Senescence PCD: other important early elements in the pathway 172

7.9 Coordinating cell death: a network of interactions 173

7.10 Hormonal control of the senescence program 175

7.10.1 Cytokinins 175

7.10.2 Ethylene 176

7.10.3 Jasmonic acid in leaf senescence 177

7.11 Metabolic/sugar signaling control of senescence: the low calorie connection 178

7.12 On the evolutionary origins of plant senescence as a form of PCD 181

8 Programmed cell death in response to abiotic stress / David E. Evans 194

8.1 Introduction: plant responses to abiotic stress 194

8.2 Types of cell death in abiotic stress 194

8.2.1 Necrosis 194

8.2.2 Apoptosis and other forms of PCD 196

8.3 Identifying PCD 197

8.4 Aerenchyma formation as an example of PCD in abiotic stress 198

8.4.1 Lysigenous aerenchyma formation 198

8.4.2 Regulators of cell death in aerenchyma formation 198

8.4.3 Ultrastructural changes associated with aerenchyma formation 199

8.5 Gaseous pollutants, ozone, ROS and PCD 203

8.6 Cell death induced by light radiation 203

8.7 Mechanical stress and cell death 204

8.8 Cell death in cold stress 205

8.9 Toxic ions and cell death 206

8.10 Unifying mechanisms and prospects for future research 207

9 Programmed cell death in plant response to biotic stress (pathogen attack) / Alex Levine 213

9.1 The rationale of PCD in pathogenesis 213

9.1.1 PCD as a defense against pathogens 213

9.1.2 PCD in response to biotrophic and necrotrophic pathogens 215

9.1.3 Phytotoxins as inducers of PCD 215

9.2 Plant disease resistance mechanisms 217

9.2.1 Host and nonhost resistance 217

9.2.2 Phytoalexin production 219

9.2.3 Hypersensitive reaction (HR) 219

9.2.4 Gene-for-gene interaction 222

9.2.5 Oxidative burst 225

9.2.6 Nitric oxide 228

9.3 PCD signaling 229

9.3.1 Pathogen perception 229

9.3.2 Plant resistance genes 230

9.3.3 PCD signaling after the pathogen perception 232

9.3.4 Spontaneous PCD mutants 233

9.3.5 Other signaling molecules in plant PCD 234

9.3.5.1 The role of calcium 235

9.3.5.2 The role of proteases 236

9.3.5.3 The role of kinases 237

9.3.5.4 The role of SA, JA, ethylene 239

9.4 Interaction and integration between the different signaling pathways 240

10 Programmed cell death in plants: future perspectives, applications, and methods / Ron Mittler, Vladimir Shulaev 251

10.1 Introduction: pathways for PCD in plants 251

10.2 Experimental systems to study PCD in plants 252

10.3 Methods to detect PCD 254

10.3.1 Cell and nuclear morphology 255

10.3.2 Membrane structure and integrity 255

10.3.3 DNA fragmentation 256

10.3.4 TUNEL assay 256

10.3.5 Molecular markers of PCD 257

10.4 Applications of PCD in agriculture 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

0849319803

1841274208

OCLC:

54532735