Editing Apoptosis (section)

==Plants==
[[Programmed cell death]] in plants has a number of molecular similarities to that of animal apoptosis, but it also has differences, notable ones being the presence of a [[cell wall]] and the lack of an [[immune system]] that removes the pieces of the dead cell.  Instead of an immune response, the dying cell synthesizes substances to break itself down and places them in a [[vacuole]] that ruptures as the cell dies. Additionally, plants do not contain phagocytic cells, which are essential in the process of breaking down and removing apoptotic bodies.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = van Doorn WG, Beers EP, Dangl JL, Franklin-Tong VE, Gallois P, Hara-Nishimura I, Jones AM, Kawai-Yamada M, Lam E, Mundy J, Mur LA, Petersen M, Smertenko A, Taliansky M, Van Breusegem F, Wolpert T, Woltering E, Zhivotovsky B, Bozhkov PV | display-authors = 6 | title = Morphological classification of plant cell deaths | journal = Cell Death and Differentiation | volume = 18 | issue = 8 | pages = 1241–1246 | date = August 2011 | pmid = 21494263 | pmc = 3172093 | doi = 10.1038/cdd.2011.36 }}</ref> Whether this whole process resembles animal apoptosis closely enough to warrant using the name ''apoptosis'' (as opposed to the more general ''programmed cell death'') is unclear.<ref>{{Cite journal | vauthors = Collazo C, Chacón O, Borrás O | url = http://elfosscientiae.cigb.edu.cu/PDFs/BA/2006/23/1/BA002301RV001-010.pdf | title = Programmed cell death in plants resembles apoptosis of animals | journal = Biotecnología Aplicada | year = 2006 | volume = 23 | pages = 1–10 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090303235946/http://elfosscientiae.cigb.edu.cu/PDFs/BA/2006/23/1/BA002301RV001-010.pdf | archive-date = 2009-03-03 }}</ref><ref name=dickman2017>{{cite journal | vauthors = Dickman M, Williams B, Li Y, de Figueiredo P, Wolpert T | title = Reassessing apoptosis in plants | journal = Nature Plants | volume = 3 | issue = 10 | pages = 773–779 | date = October 2017 | pmid = 28947814 | doi = 10.1038/s41477-017-0020-x | bibcode = 2017NatPl...3..773D | s2cid = 3290201 }}</ref>