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Frits Warmolt Went
Frits Warmolt Went
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of botany in general. He knew the entire plant physiological literature, having react every important paper ever publisher!
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much of the lost growth, he hypothesized, as had others, that the tip was a source of substances promoting the growth of cells lower down the organ. His creative innovation was to collect such growth hormones by simply allowing them to diffuse from the cut surface of the excises!
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Kenneth Thimann, James Bonner, Folke Skoog, en c! {ohannes van Overbeek, among others.
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It became the prototype for many similar installations all over the woricI. In the phytotron Went was able to establish climatic conclitions for maximizing productivity of many important plant crops, to find that optimal day and night temperatures were vastly different for each plant en c!
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some experiments at the phytotron, taught with him in a collaborative graduate course in plant physiology, shared his seminars, informal discussions, en c! desert field!
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None of these hypotheses enjoys much support today, although the discovery of the cytokinins en c! other plant hormones can be interpreted in terms of the caline theory.
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of coexistence with colleagues who were increasingly committee! to reductionist molecular genetic approaches to the problems of biology.
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Now known as the Biological Sciences Center, this group still conducts desert biology and plant-atmosphere research inspired by Went. Upon his arrival in Reno, Went built two air-conclitionec!
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produce cash crops without altering the basic ecological relationships that were necessary for high productivity in these en vironments. Went's seminal work on the root fungi, or mycorrhizae, energizer!
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Despite copious fertilizer additions to all of the plants, the plants in compost grew larger. Went suspectec!
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all plant physiologists to work in highly controller! greenhouses or growth rooms so that experimental effects wouIc!
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Black Carbon Means Blue Sky. In the book Went clescribec!
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Waltham, Mass. Botanical 1960 Chronica Blue hazes in the atmosphere.
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51:1259-67. 1966 On the nature of Aitken condensation nuclei.
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86:95-100. 1992 363 Black Carbon Means Blue Sky, published posthumously by A
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