Senescence occurs at every stage of plant development. Shriveling of the cotyledons in
young plants and the seasonal recurrence of leaf yellowing are obvious examples. Similarly …

Ageing in green plants differs in some fundamental ways from the process in animals. The
seasonal cycle and persistence of a plant is governed by a combination of the determinate …

Agricultural crop losses in the field as well as during transportation from the producer to the
consumer are mainly caused by natural or harvest-induced senescence. Many different …

Four mutants that show the delayed leaf senescence phenotype were isolated from
Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetic analyses revealed that they are all monogenic recessive …

Senescence is the ultimate phase in the life cycle of leaves which is crucial for recycling of
nutrients to maintain plant fitness and reproductive success. The earliest visible …

Senescence and death play prominent roles in plant development. Such vitally important
processes as water transport in the xylem or the recycling of nutrients from one part of the …

Leaf senescence is a genetically controlled dismantling programme that enables plants to
efficiently remobilise nutrients to new growing sinks. It involves substantial metabolic …

A recent, genome-wide study shows that the transcriptional program underlying leaf
senescence is active and complex, reflecting the activation of more than 2,000 genes in …

Leaf senescence is a destructive process that allows the efficient recycling of nutrients from
dying leaves to growing parts of the plant. It is the final stage of leaf development that can be …

Leaf senescence can impact crop production by either changing photosynthesis duration, or
by modifying the nutrient remobilization efficiency and harvest index. The doubling of the …