Annals of Botany 90: 423-424, 2002
© 2002 Annals of Botany Company
Lam, E., Fukuda, H., Greenberg, J., eds. Programmed cell death in higher plants
Programmed cell death in higher plants.
Lam E, Fukuda H, Greenberg J, eds. 2000.
Dordrecht: Kluwer.
£45.00 (hardback). x + 200 pp.
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For everything there is a season . . . a time to build up and a time to break down . . . a time to live and a time to die.
The quotation comes from the work of a Jewish scholar writing under the pen name Ecclesiastes or The Preacher, several centuries BC. His words capture the theme of the book under review here: that death is part of life and may be regulated by factors that include time and season. Programmed cell death in higher plants is a hardback reprint of a special edition of Plant Molecular Biology, devoted to scholarly