Gottlieb Haberlandt (28 November 1854 – 30 January 1945) was an Austrian
botanist. He was the son of European 'soybean' pioneer Professor
Friedrich J. Haberlandt. His son
Ludwig Haberlandt
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was an early reproductive physiologist now given credit as the 'grandfather' of the
birth control pill
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.
Haberlandt first pointed out the possibilities of the culture of isolated tissues,
plant tissue culture
Plant tissue culture is a collection of techniques used to maintain or grow plant cells, tissues or organs under sterile conditions on a nutrient culture medium of known composition. It is widely used to produce clones of a plant in a method known ...
. He suggested that the potentialities of individual cells via tissue culture and also suggested that the reciprocal influences of tissues on one another could be determined by this method. Since Haberlandt's original assertions methods for tissue and cell culture have been realized, leading to significant discoveries in Biology and Medicine. His original idea presented in 1902 was called
totipotentiality: “Theoretically all plant cells are able to give rise to a complete plant.”
The more efficient C-4 photosynthesis in land plants
first described by Gottlieb Haberlandt in 1904.
[Haberlandt, G. 1904.Physiologische Pflanzanatomie. Engelmann, Leipzig.]
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1854 births
1945 deaths
People from Mosonmagyaróvár
Hungarian-German people
19th-century Hungarian botanists
19th-century Austrian botanists
Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)
Corresponding Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Austrian people of Hungarian descent
20th-century Austrian botanists
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