Plant Tissue Culture : 100 years since Gottlieb Haberlandt /

In 2002 the 100th anniversary of the publication on "Culturversuche mit isolierten Pflanzenzellen" by Gottlieb Haberlandt was celebrated. Haberlandts vision of the totipotency of plant cells represents the actual beginning of tissue culture. This book pays homage to a great Austrian scient...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Laimer, Margit
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Rücker, Waltraud
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint : Springer, 2003.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Original publications: Culturversuche mit isolierten Pflanzenzellen (G. Haberlandt); Plant cell and tissue cultures: The role of Haberlandt (A. D. Krikorian/D. L. Berquam)
  • Gottlieb Haberlandt: the man and the scientist: G. Haberlandt (18541945): a portrait (O. Hrtel); Cellular elementary organisms in vitro: The early vision of Gottlieb Haberlandt and its realization (E. Hxtermann)
  • Early developments of plant tissue culture: The developmental potentials of isolated mesophyll cells and protoplasts (H. W. Kohlenbach); Plant tissue culture: the history (R. J. Gautheret)
  • Applications of plant tissue culture: Micropropagation of ornamental plants (W. Preil); The in-vitro conservation of valuable genetic resources (G. Mix-Wagner/H. M. Schumacher); Production of natural products by plant cell biotechnology: results, problems and perspectives (A. W. Alfermann/M. Petersen/E. Fuss); Genetic engineering technology against malnutrition (P. Lucca, I. Potrykus); Somatic embryogenesis the gate to biotechnology in conifers (K. Zoglauer et al.); Tissue culture of broad-leafed forest tree species (E. Wilhelm); The development of transformation of temperate woody fruit crops (M. Laimer)
  • Colored figures.