Background
He was the son of European "soybean" pioneer Professor Friedrich J. Haberlandt.
He was the son of European "soybean" pioneer Professor Friedrich J. Haberlandt.
Haberlandt first pointed out the possibilities of the culture of isolated tissues, plant tissue culture. He suggested that the potentialities of individual cells via tissue culture and also suggested that the reciprocal influences of tissues on one another could be determined by this method. Since Haberlandt"s original assertions methods for tissue and cell culture have been realized, leading to significant discoveries in Biology and Medicine.
His original idea presented in 1902 was called totipotentiality: “Theoretically all plant cells are able to give rise to a complete plant.”
The more efficient C-4 photosynthesis in land plants depends on a specialized Kranz (German for wreath) leaf anatomy History_of_C3_:_C4_photosynthesis_research first described by Gottlieb Haberlandt in 1904.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Academy of Sciences of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.