Morel Multiplies Plants In Vitro, Revolutionizing Agriculture
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Science, Agriculture
- Subcategories: Biology, Biologists, Plants, Botany, Horticulture
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, French History
- Geographical Location: France
- Date: 1950-1964
Article abstract: Morel successfully cultured virus-free monocot plant tissue on an artificial medium and was the first to apply such tissue culture techniques to the propagation of plants.
Plant Tissue Grows “In Glass”
In the mid-1800’s, biologists began pondering whether a cell isolated from a multicellular organism could live separately if it were provided with the proper environment. In 1902, with this question in mind, the German plant physiologist Gottlieb Haberlandt attempted to culture (grow) isolated plant cells under sterile conditions on...
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