| Literature DB >> 19704469 |
Hai-Chun Jing1, Paul P Dijkwel.
Abstract
In our recent paper in Journal of Experimental Botany, we examined the effects of cpr5/old1 mutations and CPR5 overexpression on Arabidopsis growth and development.1 We found that CPR5 is important for early plant growth but promotes senescence at late development and hence proposed it as a senescence-regulatory gene as predicted by the Evolutionary Theory of Senescence derived from studies on animal ageing. One of the key unsolved issues is how CPR5 contributes to the early plant growth and development. Here we discuss the possible cellular functions of CPR5.Entities:
Keywords: CPR5; cell death; reactive oxygen species (ROS); senescence
Year: 2008 PMID: 19704469 PMCID: PMC2634497 DOI: 10.4161/psb.3.8.5708
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Plant Signal Behav ISSN: 1559-2316