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. Haberlandt ́s vision of the totipotency of plant cells represents the actual beginning of tissue culture. This book pays homage to a great Austrian scientist and the further development of his ideas. The first part of the book contains a facsimile of the original paper which is a true artistic masterpiece and its first translation into English from 1969. The second and third parts describe Haberlandt ́s life and work and early historical aspects of the development of plant tissue culture. The fourth part of the book contains an overview of important topics of plant tissue culture with the most promising areas of application to date and an outlook into the future. Areas range from micropropagation, production of pharmaceutically interesting compounds, plant breeding, genetic engineering of crop plants, including trees, and cryopreservation of valuable germplasm. Front Matter....Pages I-VII Culturversuche mit isolierten Pflanzenzellen....Pages 1-24 Plant Cell and Tissue Cultures: The Role of Haberlandt....Pages 25-53 Gottlieb Haberlandt (1854-1945): a portrait....Pages 55-66 Cellular ‘elementary organisms’ in vitro: The early vision of Gottlieb Haberlandt and its realization....Pages 67-91 The developmental potentials of isolated mesophyll cells and protoplasts....Pages 93-103 Plant tissue culture: the history....Pages 105-113 Micropropagation of ornamental plants....Pages 115-133 The in-vitro conservation of valuable genetic resources....Pages 135-151 Production of natural products by plant cell biotechnology: results, problems and perspectives....Pages 153-166 Genetic engineering technology against malnutrition....Pages 167-174 Somatic embryogenesis — the gate to biotechnology in conifers....Pages 175-202 Tissue culture of broad-leafed forest tree species....Pages 203-216 The development of transformation of temperate woody fruit crops....Pages 217-242 Back Matter....Pages 243-264

In 2002 the 100th anniversary of the publication on "Culturversuche mit isolierten Pflanzenzellen" by Gottlieb Haberlandt was celebrated. Haberland's vision of the totipotency of plant cells represents the actual beginning of tissue culture. This book pays homage to a great Austrian scientist and the further development of his ideas.
The first part of the book contains a facsimile of the original paper which is a true artistic masterpiece and its first translation into English from 1969. The second and third parts describe Haberland's life and work and early historical aspects of the development of plant tissue culture.
The fourth part of the book contains an overview of important topics of plant tissue culture with the most promising areas of application to date and an outlook into the future. Areas range from micropropagation, production of pharmaceutically interesting compounds, plant breeding, genetic engineering of crop plants, including trees, and cryopreservation of valuable germplasm.

2002 saw the 100th anniversary of the publication "Culturversuche mit isolierten Pflanzenzellen" by Gottlieb Haberlandt. Haberlandt's vision of the totipotency of plant cells represents the beginning of tissue culture. This book pays homage to him and the further development of his ideas. Es sind meines Wissens bisher noch keine planmäßig angelegten Versuche gemacht worden, isolierte vegetative Zellen von höher entwickelten Pflanzen in geeigneten Nährlösungen zu cultivieren.