Inhibition of Programmed Cell Death in Tobacco Plants during a Pathogen-Induced Hypersensitive Response at Low Oxygen Pressure

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ron Mittler ◽  
Vladimir Shulaev ◽  
Mirjana Seskar ◽  
Eric Lam
1997 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 1333-1344 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Mittler ◽  
L. Simon ◽  
E. Lam

Sacrificing an infected cell or cells in order to prevent systemic spread of a pathogen appears to be a conserved strategy in both plants and animals. We studied some of the morphological and biochemical events that accompany programmed cell death during the hypersensitive response of tobacco plants infected with tobacco mosaic virus. Certain aspects of this cell death process appeared to be similar to those that take place during apoptosis in animal cells. These included condensation and vacuolization of the cytoplasm and cleavage of nuclear DNA to 50 kb fragments. In contrast, internucleosomal fragmentation, condensation of chromatin at the nuclear periphery and apoptotic bodies were not observed in tobacco plants during tobacco mosaic virus-induced hypersensitive response. A unique aspect of programmed cell death during the hypersensitive response of tobacco to tobacco mosaic virus involved an increase in the amount of monomeric chloroplast DNA. Morphological changes to the chloroplast and cytosol of tobacco cells and increase in monomeric chloroplast DNA occurred prior to gross changes in nuclear morphology and significant chromatin cleavage. Our findings suggest that certain aspects of programmed cell death may have been conserved during the evolution of plants and animals.


1989 ◽  
Vol 214 (3) ◽  
pp. A267
Author(s):  
C. Palacio ◽  
H.J. Mathieu ◽  
D. Landolt

2007 ◽  
Vol 61 (14-15) ◽  
pp. 2859-2861 ◽  
Author(s):  
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R.B. Poeppel ◽  
J.E. Emerson ◽  
S.A. Johnson ◽  
M.T. Lanagan ◽  
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Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang-jie Xu ◽  
Kun-song Chen ◽  
Ian B. Ferguson

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 299-308
Author(s):  
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Grzegorz Wilczyński,

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