Plants have evolved multiple defense strategies to cope with pathogens, among which plant
immune signaling that relies on cell‐surface localized and intracellular receptors takes …

Contents I. Introduction 295 II. Evolution of the Plant Vascular System 295 III. Phloem
Development & Differentiation 300 IV. Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Xylem Cell …

INTRODUCTION Cellular damage caused by wounding triggers signals to alert the
surrounding tissue. As a universal process in all multicellular organisms, these signals …

Cell death has a central role in innate immune responses in both plants and animals.
Besides sharing striking convergences and similarities in the overall evolutionary …

Metacaspases are cysteine proteases that are present in plants, protists, fungi, and bacteria.
Previously, we found that physical damage, eg, pinching with forceps or grinding on liquid …

The death morphology commonly known as apoptosis results from a post-translational
pathway driven largely by specific limited proteolysis. In the last decade the structural basis …

With the centenary of the first descriptions of 'hypersensitiveness' following pathogenic
challenge upon us, it is appropriate to assess our current understanding of the …

Metacaspases are distant relatives of animal caspases found in protozoa, fungi, and plants.
Limited experimental data exist defining their function (s), despite their discovery by …

We report the genome-wide analysis of direct target genes of SND1 and VND7, two
Arabidopsis thaliana NAC domain transcription factors that are master regulators of …

Metacaspases are cysteine-dependent proteases found in protozoa, fungi and plants and
are distantly related to metazoan caspases. Although metacaspases share structural …