This review focuses on relationships between the abscission process (organ shedding) and other related processes like shattering, senescence, pathogen defense, and drought stress with emphasis on how the relationships might be exploited to advance their respective fields. Shared molecular components provide a means for cross-talk between processes as well as a means for knowledge transfer between fields. The review briefly covers how fundamental abscission molecular mechanisms can be used for crop improvement. We cover seed abscission and shattering in rice, cereals, and beans as well as abscission in Arabidopsis and tomato. The review provides a set of five guidelines that can be used to direct future cell separation research. Finally, we give our perspective on methods and technologies that are likely to advance the abscission field.

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脱落、开裂、病原体防御、耐旱和衰老之间的联系

本综述重点关注脱落过程（器官脱落）与其他相关过程（如破碎、衰老、病原体防御和干旱胁迫）之间的关系，重点介绍如何利用这些关系推进各自领域的发展。共享的分子成分提供了过程之间的串扰以及领域之间的知识转移的手段。该综述简要介绍了基本的脱落分子机制如何用于作物改良。我们涵盖了水稻、谷物和豆类的种子脱落和破碎，以及拟南芥和番茄的脱落。该评论提供了一套五项指南，可用于指导未来的细胞分离研究。最后，我们对可能推动脱落领域的方法和技术提出了自己的看法。