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Jan 10, 2022 · Reviewed by Govindjee and Krogmann (2004), Sachs showed that starch grains are produced in plant leaves and that these are the first visible product of the process of photosynthesis. He also takes credit for proving that the green pigment chlorophyll in the chloroplast is involved in photosynthesis. In her 2007 paper From Leaves to Molecules ...
Apr 5, 2024 · Julius von Sachs (born Oct. 2, 1832, Breslau, Ger. [now Wrocław, Pol.]—died May 29, 1897, Würzburg, Ger.) was a German botanist whose experimental study of nutrition, tropism, and transpiration of water greatly advanced the knowledge of plant physiology, and the cause of experimental biology in general, during the second half of the 19th ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Most important are his experiments, developing the concept of photosynthesis, that the starch -grains, found in leaf chloroplasts, depend on sunlight.
May 17, 2018 · The year 2018 marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of Julius von Sachs' (1832–1897) Lehrbuch der Botanik ( Textbook of Botany ), which provided a comprehensive summary of what was then known about the plant sciences. Three years earlier, in 1865, Sachs produced the equally impressive Handbuch der Experimental-Physiologie der ...
- Ulrich Kutschera, Karl J. Niklas
- 2018
The goal of this Special Invited Paper is to review the many impor-tant contributions to plant biology made by Julius von Sachs (1832– 1897), who quite rightly can be called “the father of plant physiology” (Fig. 1).
May 17, 2018 · Photographs of Julius von Sachs. Shown to the left is a portrait and signature of Sachs at the age of ca. 45 years. The inscription reads "Freiburg, August 22, 1868, Prof. Dr. J. Sachs" (adapted ...
Jan 1, 2011 · Nineteenth-century German plant physiologist Julius von Sachs (1832–1897), who laid the foundations of modern plant physiology (Pringsheim, 1932; Gest, 1988), provided an overview of the early pioneers in his History of Botany (Sachs, 1875; 1890 translation).
