Ernst Münch (26 November 1876 – 9 October 1946) was a German
plant physiologist
Plant physiology is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the functioning, or physiology, of plants.
Plant physiologists study fundamental processes of plants, such as photosynthesis, respiration, plant nutrition, plant hormone functions, tropi ...
who proposed the
pressure flow hypothesis
The pressure flow hypothesis, also known as the mass flow hypothesis, is the best-supported theory to explain the movement of sap through the phloem of plants. It was proposed in 1930 by Ernst Münch, a German plant physiologist.
Organic molecu ...
in 1930.
He studied in
Aschaffenburg
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Aschaffenburg belonged to the Archbishopric ...
, and then in
Munich
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with
Robert Hartig
Robert Hartig (born: Heinrich Julius Adolph Robert Hartig, 30 May 1839, in Braunschweig – died 9 October 1901, in Munich) was a German forestry scientist and mycologist. He has been called the father of forest pathology.
Biography
He was educ ...
. He worked in a number of fields including
forest pathology
Forest pathology is the research of both biotic and abiotic maladies affecting the health of a forest ecosystem, primarily fungal pathogens and their insect vectors. It is a subfield of forestry and plant pathology.
Forest pathology is part ...
, resin production, and fungi. He is best known for the phloem pressure flow hypothesis.
Works
* ''Untersuchungen über Immunität und Krankheitsempfänglichkeit der Holzpflanzen'', Dissertation, Ludwigsburg 1909 (doctorate thesis)
* ''Die Stoffbewegungen in der Pflanze'', Jena 1930
* ''Beiträge zur Forstpflanzenzüchtung. Versuche einer Auslesezüchtung durch Einzelstamm-Absaaten bei Fichte. Weitere Beiträge zur Forstpflanzenzüchtung''
us dem wissenschaftlichen Nachlass herausgegeben von Bruno Huber München 1949
References
Further reading
* E. Höxtermann: ''Ernst Münch''. In: Ilse Jahn (Hrsg.): ''Geschichte der Biologie. Theorien, Methoden, Institutionen, Kurzbiografien''. 3. Auflage, Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, S. 909 (Nachdruck Nikol, Hamburg 2004, )
*
Heinrich Rubner: ''Ernst Münch''. In ders.: ''Hundert bedeutende Forstleute Bayerns (1875 bis 1970)''. Mitteilungen aus der Staatsforstverwaltung Bayerns. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten, München 1994, S. 242–243
20th-century German botanists
1876 births
1946 deaths
German foresters
Plant physiologists
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