Table of Contents

1. What can we learn from the cross-species biology of ageing? 2. Rebirth and death: Nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species in seeds 3. Ageing and oxidants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans 4. The perception of reactive oxygen species in plants: the road to signal transduction 5. Mechanisms and genes controlling programmed cell death and Darwinian fitness in plants 6. Ageing research in the post-genome era: New technologies for an old problem 7. Telomeres, ageing and oxidation 8. A-type lamins, disease and ageing: A stress-induced relationship? 9. Role of the glyoxalase pathway in delaying plant senescence under stress conditions 10. Catalase regulation during leaf senescence of Arabidopsis 11. Atmospheric CO₂ signalling, cellular redox state and plant growth and development 12. Protein damage in the ageing process: Advances in quantitation and the importance of enzymatic defences