Programmed Cell Death in Higher Plants

Preface. Cell death: the `Yin' path in the balancing act of the life cycle. Section 1: Developmental cell death in plants. Programmed cell death of tracheary elements as a paradigm in plants; H. Fukuda. Programmed cell death in cereal aleurone; A. Fath, et al. Programmed cell death in plant reproduction; H.-M. Wu, A.Y. Cheung. Programmed cell death during endosperm development; T.E. Young, D.R. Gallie. Regulation of cell death in flower petals; B. Rubinstein. Section 2: Induced cell death models. Hypersensitive response-related death; M.C. Heath. Transgene-induced lesion mimic; R. Mittler, L. Rizhsky. Ozone: a tool for probing programmed cell death in plants; M.V. Rao, et al. Programmed cell death in cell cultures; P.F. McCabe, C.J. Leaver. Section 3: Machine parts and regulators of the death engine in plants. Regulators of cell death in disease resistance; K. Shirasu, P. Schulze-Lefert. Endonucleases; M. Sugiyama, et al. Plant proteolytic enzymes: possible roles during programmed cell death; E.P. Beers, et al. Caspase-like protease involvement in the control of plant cell death; E. Lam, O. del Pozo. Salicylic acid in the machinery of hypersensitive cell death and disease resistance; M.E. Alvarez. Index.