• Section 1: Developmental cell death in plants.- Programmed cell death of tracheary elements as a paradigm in plants.- Programmed cell death in cereal aleurone.- Programmed cell death in plant reproduction.- Programmed cell death during endosperm development.- Regulation of cell death in flower petals.- Section 2: Induced cell death models.- Hypersensitive response-related death.- Transgene-induced lesion mimic.- Ozone: a tool for probing programmed cell death in plants.- Programmed cell death in cell cultures.- Section 3: Machine parts and regulators of the death engine in plants.- Regulators of cell death in disease resistance.- Endonucleases.- Plant proteolytic enzymes: possible roles during programmed cell death.- Caspase-Iike protease involvement in the control of plant cell death.- Salicylic acid in the machinery of hypersensitive cell death and disease resistance M.E. Alvarez.

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