title: An in vivo root hair assay for determining rates of apoptotic-like programmed cell death in plants.
abstract: In Arabidopsis thaliana we demonstrate that dying root hairs provide an easy and rapid in vivo 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.
authors.affiliation: School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.|Syngenta, Jealotts Hill International Research Centre, Bracknell, Berkshire, UK.
authors.forename: Bridget V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Hogg
authors.affiliation: School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kacprzyk
authors.affiliation: School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors.forename: Elizabeth M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Molony
authors.affiliation: School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors.forename: Conor
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.affiliation: School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors.forename: Thomas F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Gallagher
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Life Science, University of Manchester, Michael Smith Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gallois
authors.affiliation: School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland.
authors.forename: Paul F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: McCabe