An <it>in vivo </it>root hair assay for determining rates of apoptotic-like programmed cell death in plants
<p>Abstract</p> <p>In <it>Arabidopsis thaliana </it>we demonstrate that dying root hairs provide an easy and rapid <it>in vivo </it>model for the morphological identification of apoptotic-like programmed cell death (AL-PCD) in plants. The model described her...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-12-01
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| Series: | Plant Methods |
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| Online Access: | http://www.plantmethods.com/content/7/1/45 |
| Summary: | <p>Abstract</p> <p>In <it>Arabidopsis thaliana </it>we demonstrate that dying root hairs provide an easy and rapid <it>in vivo </it>model for the morphological identification of apoptotic-like programmed cell death (AL-PCD) in plants. The model described here is transferable between species, can be used to investigate rates of AL-PCD in response to various treatments and to identify modulation of AL-PCD rates in mutant/transgenic plant lines facilitating rapid screening of mutant populations in order to identify genes involved in AL-PCD regulation.</p> |
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| ISSN: | 1746-4811 |