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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). Although he contributed to virtually every branch of bot-any, Sachs will always be associated with the development of plant physiology and what is known today as plant molecular biology
Sep 1, 2015 · Metrics. In October 1865, Julius Sachs published a monograph entitled Experimental Physiology of Plants, and so initiated a new, quantitative branch of basic and applied botany. In our current...
- Ulrich Kutschera
- kut@uni-kassel.de
- 2015
Jul 6, 2015 · The German biologist Julius Sachs was the first to introduce controlled, accurate, quantitative experimentation into the botanical sciences, and is regarded as the founder of modern plant physiology. His seminal monograph Experimental-Physiologie der Pflanzen (Experimental Physiology of Plants) was published 150 y ago (1865), when Sachs was ...
- Ulrich Kutschera
- 10.1080/15592324.2015.1062958
- 2015
- 2015/09
Sep 11, 2015 · One of the lesser well-known scientists, who founded a new discipline, experimental plant physiology, was the German botanist Julius Sachs (1832–1897) (Fig. 1). Born in 1832 in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), Sachs began his scientific studies as private assistant of Jan Evangelista Purkinje (1787–1869), who was his only mentor.
- Ulrich Kutschera, František Baluška
- 2015
May 25, 2024 · Julius von Sachs 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 century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 1, 2022 · Julius Sachs (1832–1897), who has been quite rightly called “the father of plant physiology,” was a German physiologist of international standing, whose research interests contributed to virtually every branch of the plant sciences, and whose work presaged plant molecular biology and systems biology.
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May 17, 2018 · American Journal of Botany. Research Article. Free Access. Julius Sachs (1868): The father of plant physiology. Ulrich Kutschera, Karl J. Niklas. First published: 17 May 2018. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1078. Citations: 10. Read the full text. PDF. Tools. Share. Abstract.