From Goethe's plant archetype via Haeckel's biogenetic law to plant evo-devo 2016
| Autor: | Karl J. Niklas, Ulrich Kutschera |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Statistics and Probability Recapitulation theory Arabidopsis Context (language use) 01 natural sciences Zea mays 03 medical and health sciences Gene Expression Regulation Plant Botany Plant evolutionary developmental biology Animals Humans Photosynthesis Archetype Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Phylogeny Plant Physiological Phenomena biology Applied Mathematics Gene Expression Profiling Systems Biology History 19th Century Genomics History 20th Century Plants biology.organism_classification Biological Evolution Philosophy of biology 030104 developmental biology Seeds Evolutionary developmental biology Energy Metabolism 010606 plant biology & botany Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Theory in biosciences = Theorie in den Biowissenschaften. 136(1-2) |
| ISSN: | 1611-7530 |
| Popis: | In 1790, the German poet Johann W. v. Goethe (1749–1832) proposed the concept of a hypothetical sessile organism known as the ‘Plant Archetype,’ which was subsequently reconstructed and depicted by 19th-century botanists, such as Franz Unger (1800–1870) and Julius Sachs (1832–1897), and can be considered one of the first expressions of Evo-Devo thinking. Here, we present the history of this concept in the context of Ernst Haeckel’s (1834–1919) biogenetic law espoused in his Generelle Morphologie der Organismen of 1866. We show that Haeckel’s idea of biological recapitulation may help to explain why various phenomena, such as the ontogenetic transformations in the stellar anatomy of lycopods and ferns, the transition from primary to secondary anatomy of seed plants, the presence of unfused juvenile cone scale segments in the Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica), and the transition of C3- to C4-photosynthesis in the ontogeny of maize (Zea mays), appear to support his theories. In addition, we outline the current status of plant evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-Devo), which can be traced back to Haeckel's (1866) biogenetic law, with a focus on the model plant thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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