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Concepts in Cell Biology - History and Evolution (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Concepts in Cell Biology - History and Evolution (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Plant Cell Monographs, 23
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This book discusses central concepts and theories in cell biology
from the ancient past to the 21st century, based on the premise
that understanding the works of scientists like Hooke, Hofmeister,
Caspary, Strasburger, Sachs, Schleiden, Schwann, Mendel, Nemec,
McClintock, etc. in the context of the latest advances in plant
cell biology will help provide valuable new insights. Plants have
been an object of study since the roots of the Greek, Chinese and
Indian cultures. Since the term "cell" was first coined by Robert
Hooke, 350 years ago in Micrographia, the study of plant cell
biology has moved ahead at a tremendous pace. The field of cell
biology owes its genesis to physics, which through microscopy has
been a vital source for piquing scientists' interest in the biology
of the cell. Today, with the technical advances we have made in the
field of optics, it is even possible to observe life on a
nanoscale. From Hooke's observations of cells and his inadvertent
discovery of the cell wall, we have since moved forward to
engineering plants with modified cell walls. Studies on the
chloroplast have also gone from Julius von Sachs' experiments with
chloroplast, to using chloroplast engineering to deliver higher
crop yields. Similarly, advances in fluorescent microscopy have
made it far easier to observe organelles like chloroplast (once
studied by Sachs) or actin (observed by Bohumil Nemec). If physics
in the form of cell biology has been responsible for one half of
this historical development, biochemistry has surely been the
other.
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