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Jul 9, 2008 · Plant biotechnology is founded on the principles of cellular totipotency and genetic transformation, which can be traced back to the Cell Theory of Matthias Jakob Schleiden and Theodor Schwann, and the discovery of genetic transformation in bacteria by Frederick Griffith, respectively. On the 25th anniversary of the genetic transformation of plants, this review provides a historical account of ...
Oct 19, 2023 · The discovery of the cell continued to impact science one hundred years later, with the discovery of stem cells, the undifferentiated cells that have yet to develop into more specialized cells. Scientists began deriving embryonic stem cells from mice in the 1980s, and in 1998, James Thomson isolated human embryonic stem cells and developed cell ...
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The English scientist Robert Hookefirst used the term “cells” in 1665 to describe the small chambers within cork that he observed under a microscope of his own design. To Hooke, thin sections of cork resembled “Honey-comb,” or “small Boxes or Bladders of Air.” He noted that each “Cavern, Bubble, or Cell” was distinct from the others (Figure 1). At ...
As scientists were making progress toward understanding the role of cells in plant and animal tissues, others were examining the structures within the cells themselves. In 1831, Scottish botanist Robert Brown (1773–1858) was the first to describe observations of nuclei, which he observed in plant cells. Then, in the early 1880s, German botanist And...
Prior to the discovery of microbes during the seventeenth century, other theories circulated about the origins of disease. For example, the ancient Greeks proposed the miasma theory, which held that disease originated from particles emanating from decomposing matter, such as that in sewage or cesspits. Such particles infected humans in close proxim...
Exactly 150 years after the publication of the so-called cell theory the role of the botanist Schleiden has been reconsidered. It is emphasized that the study of plant sexual reproduction systems has contributed considerably to the development of the general cell concept. Recent examples show that 150 years later plant cell biology is ...
- J.H.N. Schel
- 1989
2. The Cell: Product or Agent. The formulation of early cell theory by Schleiden and Schwann has to be seen against the background of a more general research program that engaged contemporary naturalists and consisted in a quest for biological laws that would elevate botany and zoology to the status of truly scientific disciplines (Nyhart, 1995, pp. 39–47; Gliboff, 2008, pp. 37–53).
- Staffan Müller-Wille
- 2010
modern plant biotechnology derive from the concepts of cellular totipotency (the ability of a single cell to divide and produce a whole plant) and genetic transformation (genetic alteration caused by the uptake, stable integration and expression of foreign genetic material). The concept of totipotency is inherent in the Cell Theory of Schleiden
Feb 10, 2022 · Schleiden believed that cells formed through crystallization, rather than cell division. Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), a noted German physiologist, made similar microscopic observations of animal tissue. In 1839, after a conversation with Schleiden, Schwann realized that similarities existed between plant and animal tissues.
