Several coniferous species can be propagated via somatic embryogenesis. This is a useful
method for clonal propagation, but it can also be used for studying how embryo development …

Programmed cell death (PCD) is indispensable for eukaryotic development. In animals,
PCD is executed by the caspase family of cysteine proteases. Plants do not have close …

In the animal life cycle, the earliest manifestations of programmed cell death (PCD) can
already be seen during embryogenesis. The aim of this work was to determine if PCD is also …

Programmed cell death (PCD) is executed by proteases, which cleave diverse proteins thus
modulating their biochemical and cellular functions. Proteases of the caspase family and …

(Figure S2). Transformation of embryogenic cell cultures with this construct reduced the
level of metacaspase mRNA by 97–99% for different clones (Figure 1C). In somatic …

Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is a process of differentiation of cells into a plant bypassing
the fusion of gametes. As such, it represents a very powerful tool in biotechnology for …

Although animals eliminate apoptotic cells using macrophages, plants use cell corpses
throughout development and disassemble cells in a cell-autonomous manner by vacuolar cell …

Tudor Staphylococcal Nuclease (TSN or Tudor-SN; also known as SND1) is an evolutionarily
conserved protein involved in the transcriptional and posttranscriptional regulation of gene …

Autophagy plays multiple, often antagonistic roles in plants. In particular, cytoprotective
functions of autophagy are well balanced by cell death functions to compensate for the absence …

Autophagy is a major catabolic process whereby autophagosomes deliver cytoplasmic content
to the lytic compartment for recycling. Autophagosome formation requires two ubiquitin-…