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Molecular regulation of leaf senescence
1Sainsbury Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, Colney Lane, UK. satoko.yoshida@sainsbury-laboratory.ac.uk
Current Opinion in Plant Biology
|December 24, 2002
Abstract:
Leaf senescence is a process of programmed cell death, which is induced in an age-dependent manner and by various environmental cues. The mechanisms that regulate the induction and progression of leaf senescence remain unclear because of their complexity. However, recent genetic and reverse-genetic approaches have identified key components of the regulation of leaf senescence and have revealed glimpses of the underlying molecular mechanisms.