… In the following section, we will review the role of proteases in cell death processes
occurring in the different seed compartments during seed development and germination. …

… Caspases are cysteine-dependent proteases and are important components of animal … a
number of cellular proteins mediating programmed cell death (PCD). Plants encode only distant …

… interconnected fields of programmed cell death (PCD) and plant protease activity. Future …
profiling using genetically encoded protease activity reporters. Proteases encompass a diverse …

… characterization of cell death-associated plant proteases with … in plant programmed
cell death of proteolytic activities … in cell death morphology between animal and plant cells. …

… , apoptosis-like death pathway. Here, we critically review the evidence for Cys proteases
implicated in PCD in plants. We discuss the role of papain-like Cys proteases, vacuolar …

… This review aims to highlight the proteases required for regulated cell death mechanisms in
… proteases in plant cell death, comparing and contrasting with animal cell death mechanisms. …

… systems, the identities of the main executioners that orchestrate cell death remain elusive. …
caspase-like proteases may also be involved in cell death control in higher plants. Furthermore…

… This principle relies on the presence of proteolytic cascades where proteases are activated
… lead to repetitive cell death. While protease activation, proteolytic cascades and targeted …

… that protease inhibitors can suppress programmed cell death in various plant species and
plant … This is especially true of caspase inhibitors that can block programmed cell death and its …

… All these events have their own particularities, but the participation of proteases … plant PCD.
In this chapter, we tackle important aspects of the proteases, in special that involved in plant …