Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell Death
Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically controlled suicide process present in all living beings with the scope of eliminating cells unnecessary or detrimental for the proper development of the organism. In plants, PCD plays a pivotal role in many developmental processes such as sex determinatio...
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| description | Programmed cell death (PCD) is a genetically controlled suicide process present in all living beings with the scope of eliminating cells unnecessary or detrimental for the proper development of the organism. In plants, PCD plays a pivotal role in many developmental processes such as sex determination, senescence, and aerenchyma formation and is involved in the defense responses against abiotic and biotic stresses. Thus, its study is a main goal for plant scientists. However, since PCD often occurs in a small group of inaccessible cells buried in a bulk of surrounding uninvolved cells, its study in whole plant or complex tissues is very difficult. Due to their uniformity, accessibility, and reproducibility of application of stress conditions, cultured cells appear a useful tool to investigate the different aspects of plant PCD. In this review, we summarize how plant cell cultures can be utilized to clarify the plant PCD process. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-57e066feac154d5b81232baebdb79f312023-12-11T17:57:04ZengMDPI AGInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences1661-65961422-00672021-02-01224216610.3390/ijms22042166Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell DeathMassimo Malerba0Raffaella Cerana1Dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze dell’Ambiente e della Terra, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, ItalyProgrammed cell death (PCD) is a genetically controlled suicide process present in all living beings with the scope of eliminating cells unnecessary or detrimental for the proper development of the organism. In plants, PCD plays a pivotal role in many developmental processes such as sex determination, senescence, and aerenchyma formation and is involved in the defense responses against abiotic and biotic stresses. Thus, its study is a main goal for plant scientists. However, since PCD often occurs in a small group of inaccessible cells buried in a bulk of surrounding uninvolved cells, its study in whole plant or complex tissues is very difficult. Due to their uniformity, accessibility, and reproducibility of application of stress conditions, cultured cells appear a useful tool to investigate the different aspects of plant PCD. In this review, we summarize how plant cell cultures can be utilized to clarify the plant PCD process.https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/4/2166cell culturesprogrammed cell deathreactive oxygen speciesreactive nitrogen species |
| spellingShingle | Massimo Malerba Raffaella Cerana Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell Death International Journal of Molecular Sciences cell cultures programmed cell death reactive oxygen species reactive nitrogen species |
| title | Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell Death |
| title_full | Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell Death |
| title_fullStr | Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell Death |
| title_full_unstemmed | Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell Death |
| title_short | Plant Cell Cultures as a Tool to Study Programmed Cell Death |
| title_sort | plant cell cultures as a tool to study programmed cell death |
| topic | cell cultures programmed cell death reactive oxygen species reactive nitrogen species |
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