Dissecting the signals that control developmental cell death in the Arabidopsis thaliana root cap Ghent University
Programmed cell death (PCD) is an essential process in the development of animals and plants that
is under tight regulatory control. Uncontrolled PCD can lead to disease and death, therefore
organisms need sophisticated mechanisms to ensure PCD occurs in a controlled manner. In
contrast to forms of animal PCD such as apoptosis, surprisingly little is known about the
developmentally controlled PCD (dPCD) in plants. ...