Hofmeister, W. 1849. Die Entshehung des Embryos der Phanerogamen. Eine Reihe Mikroskopische Untersuchungen. Verlag der Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig.
This is a resource that has been developed in conjunction with the International Association for Sexual Plant Reproduction Research by Scott Russell (srussell<at>ou.edu).
| 1849: This is a monograph that described the origin of the embryo in flowering plants from a pre-existing cell inside the ovule (an egg cell) by a young Wilhelm Hofmeister, who presented technically gifted views of fertilization based entirely on cleared materials, as this predates paraffin sectioning. This copy is from the Stanford Library copied in collaboration with Google.
Hofmeister, W. 1849. Die Entshehung des Embryos der Phanerogamen. Eine Reihe Mikroskopische Untersuchungen. Verlag der Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig. | |
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| 1898: This is the short description of double fertilization from a 24 August 1898 meeting presentation given in Russia by Sergius Nawaschin reported in German in Botanisches Zentralblatt.
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1899: This is the first description by Leon Guignard.
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| 1900: This is the first review on the earliest work on double fertilization, demonstrating the high interest given on this phenomenon. The paper by Ethel Sargant gives some of the first evolutionary viewpoints on double fertilization, which seem reasonably consistent with current models.
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