Chemical Research on Plant Growth : A translation of Théodore de Saussure's Recherches chimiques sur la Végétation

• Main Author: de Saussure, Théodore
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2013
• Subjects: Plant physiology; Plant anatomy; Botany; Biochemistry; Life sciences; QK1; Leicester; Carbonic acid
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:38521; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4136-6

Nicholas-Théodore de Saussure, a Swiss plant physiologist and plant chemist, was the last of the early pioneers of photosynthesis research. His most important contributions were the demonstration that water is a component of plant dry matter; that plants obtain their carbon from the carbon dioxide o...