Organismal view of a plant and a plant cell.

• Authors: Przemysław Wojtaszek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cell walls are at the basis of a structural, four-dimensional framework of plant form and growth time. Recent rapid progress of cell wall research has led to the situation where the old, long-lasting juxtaposition: "living" protoplast - "dead" cell wall, had to be dropped. Various attempts of re-interpretation cast, however, some doubts over the very nature of plant cell and the status of the walls within such a cell. Following a comparison of exocellular matrices of plants and animals, their position in relation to cells and organisms is analysed. A multitude of perspectives of the biological organisation of living beings is presented with particular attention paid to the cellular and organismal theories. Basic tenets and resulting corollaries of both theories are compared, and evolutionary and developmental implications are considered. Based on these data, "The Plant Body" - an organismal concept of plants and plant cells is described.

Keywords

EN

cell wall; plant cell; organismal theory; plant; cell theory; apoplast

• Publisher: Polish Biochemical Society
• Journal: Acta Biochimica Polonica
• Year: 2001
• Volume: 48
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 443-451

Dates

published

2001

received

2001-02-14

revised

2001-05-14

accepted

2001-05-28

Contributors

author

Przemysław Wojtaszek

• Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, and Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

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