摘要： 植物细胞程序性死亡(programmed cell death,PCD)已成为当前生物学的研究热点之一。植物PCD普遍存在于植物器官和个体生长发育过程及与环境相互作用过程中，具有重要的生物学意义。在高等植物生长发育过程中，根冠细胞、导管细胞、绒毡层细胞、胚乳细胞、胚柄细胞、糊粉细胞、大孢子细胞、助细胞和反足细胞等细胞在一定程度上均发生了PCD。另外，衰老也涉及PCD。本文综述了最近几年来与发育有关的PCD研究进展，主要包括高等植物细胞死亡的形式、起因及其PCD的形态、生化特征及高等植物营养器官(根、茎和叶)和生殖器官(花、果实和种子)在其生长发育过程中的PCD。文章最后还对植物PCD的进化和生物学意义作了进一步的讨论。
Abstract：Plant programmed cell death(PCD),the details of which are becoming a focus of intensive research in biology， is a ubiquitous phenomenon and plays an improtant biological role in the develpoment of organs and whole organisms and in interactions with the environment.During higher plant development,root cap cells,tracheary elements(TEs),tapetalcells,endosperm cells,suspensor cells,aleurone cells,megaspore cells,help cells and antipodal cells,etc.undergo PCD to some degree.In addition,senescence also involves PCD.This paper mainly reviewed PCD research progress in higher plant development in recent years,including forms and causes of cell death and PCD morphological and biochemical features in higher plants;PCD in development of nutritive organs(root ,stem and leaf) and reproductive organs(flower ,fruit and seed),evolution and biological rloes of plant PCD were further discussed in the paper.