María Belén Fernández et al.
Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB, 61, 197-203 (2012-11-07)
Programmed cell death (PCD) occurs in plants, animals and several branches of unicellular eukaryotes as a part of developmental and/or defense processes. Caspase proteases are universal mediators of animal apoptosis, a type of PCD. In plants, there are not animal