Plant Programmed Cell Death

CONTENTS

1 An Overview of Programmed Cell Death Research: From Canonical to Emerging Model Species

Adrian N. Dauphinee and Arunika N. Gunawardena

2 Mitochondrion and Chloroplast Regulation of Plant Programmed Cell Death

Theresa J. Reape, Niall P. Brogan, and Paul F. McCabe

3 Life Beyond Death: the Formation of Xylem Sap Conduits

Delphine Ménard, Sacha Escamez, Hannele Tuominen and Edouard Pesquet

4 Programmed Cell Death in Plant Immunity: Cellular Reorganization, Signaling and Cell Cycle Dependence in Cultured Cells as a Model System

Takamitsu Kurusu, Takumi Higaki, and Kazuyuki Kuchitsu

5 Vascular Aerenchyma and PCD

Daniel K. Gladish

6 Out for a Walk Along the Secretory Pathway During Programmed Cell Death

Jean-Luc Cacas

7 Nuclear Dismantling Events: Crucial Steps During the Execution of Plant Programmed Cell Death

Fernando Domínguez and Francisco Javier Cejudo

8 Programmed Cell Death Regulation by Plant Proteases with Caspase-Like Activity

Yao-Min Cai and Patric Gallois

9 Senescence-Associated Programmed Cell Death

Hilary J. Rogers

10 The Hypersensitive Response in PAMP- and Effector-Triggered Immune Responses

Angela Feechan, Dionne Turnbull, Laura J. Stevens, Stefan Engelhardt, Paul R. J. Birch, Ingo Hein, and Eleanor M. Gilroy

11 To Live or Die: Auophagy in PlantsBrice E. Floyd, Yunting Pu, Junmarie Soto-Burgos, and Diane C. Bassham

Dr. Arunika Gunawardena is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Over recent years the Gunawardena laboratory has pioneered the use of the beautiful lace plant, Aponogeton madagascariensis as a novel model organism for the study of programmed cell death. (http://pcdlab.biology.dal.ca).

Dr. Paul McCabe is Head of the Botany Programme at the School of Biology and Environmental Science at University College Dublin, Ireland. Dr. McCabe's research interests include the regulation of developmental cell fate and cell death determination. Dr. McCabe and his colleagues have used PCD morphology and in vitro cell cultures to study several aspects of plant programmed cell death.

"This first book on programmed cell death in plants in a decade examines many aspects of these processes. Geared to advanced readers, it is a compilation of original reviews contributed by 30 authors, supported by more than 1,000 references ... . The work is well illustrated with good use of color throughout ... . Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals/practitioners." (L. C. Davis, Choice, Vol. 53 (8), April, 2016)