Sacrifice in the face of foes: pathogen-induced programmed cell death in plants.
Inhibition of pathogen growth during the defense of plants is thought to involve a rapid process of cell death localized to the site of invasion. Recent studies suggest that the death of plant cells during this 'hypersensitive response' process is likely to result from the activation of a programmed cell death pathway.
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Center for Agricultural Molecular Biology, State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick 08903-0231, USA.
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010944:Plants / Q000276:immunology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid