Origins of the Cellular Biosphere
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69944-8_12" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69944-8_12</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69944-8_12" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-69944-8_12</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Origins of the Cellular Biosphere
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Origins of the Cellular Biosphere
ISBN
978-3-319-69944-8
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
271-290
Number of pages of the book
290
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
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