Concepts in Cell Biology - History and Evolution

295 Pages·2018·4.84 MB·English

by  Vaidurya Pratap Sahi

Plant Cell Monographs
Vaidurya Pratap Sahi
František Baluška Editors
Concepts in
Cell Biology -
History and
Evolution
Plant Cell Monographs
Volume 23
Serieseditor
PeterNick
Karlsruhe,Germany
Moreinformationaboutthisseriesathttp://www.springer.com/series/7089
Vaidurya Pratap Sahi (cid:129) Frantisˇek Balusˇka
Editors
Concepts in Cell Biology -
History and Evolution
Editors
VaiduryaPratapSahi FrantisˇekBalusˇka
BotanicalInstitute IZMB,DepartmentofPlantCellBiology
KarlsruheInstituteofTechnology UniversityofBonn
Karlsruhe,Germany Bonn,Nordrhein-Westfalen,Germany
ISSN1861-1370 ISSN1861-1362 (electronic)
PlantCellMonographs
ISBN978-3-319-69943-1 ISBN978-3-319-69944-8 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69944-8
LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2017964433
©SpringerInternationalPublishingAG2018
Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof
the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations,
recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission
or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or
dissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped.
The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this
publicationdoesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexempt
fromtherelevantprotectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse.
Thepublisher,theauthorsandtheeditorsaresafetoassumethattheadviceandinformationinthis
book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the
authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained
hereinor for anyerrors oromissionsthat may havebeenmade. Thepublisher remainsneutralwith
regardtojurisdictionalclaimsinpublishedmapsandinstitutionalaffiliations.
Printedonacid-freepaper
ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbySpringerNature
TheregisteredcompanyisSpringerInternationalPublishingAG
Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland
ThisbookisdedicatedtothememoryofPeter
W. Barlow (1942–2017)
Preface
The conceptualization of this book took place at the first European Cytoskeletal
ClubmeetingheldinPragueinJune2015,afteradiscussionabouttheneedtoknow
thegenesisoftheconceptsthathaveshapedthescienceofplantcellbiology.Plants
have been a subject of study since the times of the ancient Greeks, Chinese, and
Indians. Since the first publication of the term “cell” in Micrographia, 350 years
ago by Robert Hooke (1665), the study of plant cell biology has moved ahead
tremendously.RobertHookeiscreditedforhisobservationsofcorkandforcoining
the word “cell.” In addition to his observations, he inadvertently introduced cell
walls and the dynamics of cells in the context of the volume enclosed by the cell
walls.SincethedaysofHooke,cells,theunitsoforganismalforms,haveattracted
the attention of the scientific field. The field of cell biology owes its genesis to
physics, which, through microscopy, has been vital in enhancing the interests of
scientistsinthebiologyofthecell.Today,withthetechnicaladvancesinthefield
ofoptics,itispossibletoobservelifeevenatthenanoscale.FromHooke’sseminal
observation of cells and his inadvertent observation of the cell walls, we have
movedforwardtoengineeringplantswithmodifiedcellwalls.Studyofchloroplast
hasalsomovedfromtheexperimentsofJuliusvonSachstochloroplastengineering
for improved crop yields. Similarly, advances in fluorescence microscopy have
enabled better observation of organelles, such as the vacuoles studied by
Hofmeister.
If physics is one side of the coin (cell biology), biochemistry is the other. We
have come a long way from Hooke’s observation, but it remains important to
understand what Hooke observed 350 years ago, or what Schleiden and Schwan
said about cells as the universal units of plants and animals. All this needs to be
takenintoconsiderationwhenwetalkaboutcells,cellwalls,orcellcycles.Inthis
digitalage,whennewtechniquesareallowingsciencetomovefasterthanever,it
remainsimportanttobringbackoldconceptsinthelightofmodernscience.Inthis
book, we bring forth and discuss the concepts and theories propounded by the
progenitorsofplantcellbiologyinthecontextoftheirrelevancetothecellbiology
of today. An understanding of the works of scientists such as Hooke, Grew,
vii
viii Preface
Hofmeister, Schleiden, Schwann, von Mohl, Na¨geli, von Mohl, Fleming,
Strasburger, Sachs, Bernard, Boveri, Nemec, and Haberlandt in the context of
twenty-firstcenturyadvancesinplantcellbiologywillhelptoprovidenewbottles
for the old wines. As Isaac Newton wrote to Robert Hooke in his letter dated
5February1675:“Youhaveaddedmuchseveralways,andespeciallyintakingthe
coloursofthinplatesintophilosophicalconsideration.IfIhaveseenalittlefurther
it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants” (Newton 1675). Newton quoted the
twelfth century theologian John of Salisbury, who used it in a treatise on logic
called Metalogicon, written in Latin in 1159: “We are like dwarfs sitting on the
shouldersofgiants.Weseemore,andthingsthataremoredistant,thantheydid,not
because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they
raiseusup,andbytheirgreatstatureaddtoours”(Salisbury1159).Insomeway,
weareactingasCedalionstandingontheshouldersofOrioninthestoriesofGreek
mythology.
Karlsruhe VaiduryaPratapSahi
Bonn FrantisˇekBalusˇka
September2017
References
HookeR(1665)Micrographia,orsomephysiologicaldescriptionsofminutebodies
madebymagnifyingglasses.RoyalSociety,London
NewtonI(1675)LetterfromSirIsaacNewtontoRobertHooke.HistoricalSociety
of Pennsylvania 37:12/11. http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/
Show/object_id/9285
SalisburyJ(1159, 1955) TheMetalogiconofJohnofSalisbury:atwelfth-century
defense of the verbal and logical arts of the trivium. University of California
Press,Berkeley
Contents
1 PlantCellBiology:When,How,andWhy?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
VaiduryaPratapSahiandFrantisˇekBalusˇka
2 180YearsoftheCell:FromMatthiasJakobSchleidentotheCell
BiologyoftheTwenty-FirstCentury. . . .. . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . .. 7
JurajSekeresandViktorZarsky
3 SymbioticOriginofEukaryoticNucleus:FromCellBody
toNeo-Energide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
FrantisˇekBalusˇkaandSherrieLyons
4 ABriefHistoryofEukaryoticCellCycleResearch. . . . . . . . . . . . 67
FatimaCvrcˇkova´
5 PlantMicrotubuleResearch:AShortHistory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
KaterˇinaSchwarzerova´
6 PlantActinCytoskeleton:NewFunctionsfromOldScaffold. . . . . 103
AnaPaez-Garcia,J.AlanSparks,LouisedeBang,
andElisonB.Blancaflor
7 CellWallExpansion:CaseStudyofaBiomechanicalProcess. . . . 139
AlexisPeaucelle
8 ApoplasticBarriers:TheirStructureandFunctionfrom
aHistoricalPerspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
AlesˇSoukupandEditaTylova´
9 EvolvingViewsonPlastidPleomorphy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
KathleenDelfosse,MichaelR.Wozny,ColeAnderson,
KiahA.Barton,andJaideepMathur
10 CommunicationWithinPlantCells. . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .. . 205
BratislavStankovicandEricDavies
ix
x Contents
11 Plasmodesmata:AHistoryofConceptualSurprises. . . . . . . . . . . . 221
AartJ.E.vanBel
12 OriginsoftheCellularBiosphere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
JanaSˇvorcova´,AntonMarkosˇ,andPranabDas