title: Senescence and death of plant organs: nutrient recycling and developmental regulation.
abstract: Senescence and programmed cell death are important features for plant development. By allowing nutrient recycling and reallocation all along plant life, senescence contributes to the plant survival and the developmental program. This review first presents the concept of senescence in the global whole-plant life story, with an emphasis on the control exerted by flowering. It then focuses on leaf-senescence and its control by hormones, nutrients and development. The role of autophagy and of the Target of Rapamycin (TOR) kinase as potential regulators integrating environmental and endogenous signals, which control cell proliferation, reprogramming and nutrient management, is finally considered.
authors.affiliation: Institut Jean-Pierre-Bourgin (IJPB), UMR 1318, bâtiment 2, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, route de Saint-Cyr, Versailles cedex, France.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guiboileau
authors.forename: Rodnay
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sormani
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: Céline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Masclaux-Daubresse
mesh_terms: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D001343:Autophagy; D016923:Cell Death / Q000502:physiology; D035264:Flowers / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D006655:Histone Deacetylases / Q000502:physiology; D006657:Histones / Q000378:metabolism; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D063245:Plant Development; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators / Q000502:physiology; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D018517:Plant Roots / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D029681:Arabidopsis Proteins; D006655:Histone Deacetylases; D006657:Histones; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D010937:Plant Growth Regulators; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases; C512171:TOR protein, Arabidopsis