VERA ALEXEEVNA PODDUBNAIA-ARNOLDI (22.05.1902 18.03.1985) COMMEMORATION OF THE 115 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF THE GREAT EMBRYOLOGIST
Journal Title: Romanian Journal of Biology - Plant Biology - Year 2017, Vol 62, Issue 1
Abstract
This article celebrates the personality of Russian Academician Vera Poddubnaia- Arnoldi on the occasion of 115 years since her birth. The great plant embryologist Vera Poddubnaia-Arnoldi was born on May 22 1902, in Kursk where she finished her secondary training in 1918. She continued her studies at the Moscow University - Faculty of Biology, graduating in 1925. Starting with 1929, when she publicly defended her PhD thesis, she activated at the Institute of Gummiferous Plants, where she organized the Laboratory of Cytology and Embryology whose coordinator/manager she was until 1934. Later she worked in the Laboratory of Cytology in the Institute of Phytotechnics (Leningrad), at the Institute of Genetics of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R (Moscow), at the Sugar Beet Institute (Tashkent), at the Agricultural Institute for Cereals (Moscow). Since 1950 until her death (1985) she worked at the Central Botanical Gardens of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. (Moscow) in the Laboratory of Physiology of Plant Development. Professor Poddubnaia dedicated her whole life to science. In many of her works and monographic studies, published during several years, she demonstrated the importance of cytoembryological investigations not only for the systematics and phylogeny of plants but also for plant genetics and selection. The cytoembryological investigations performed by Prof. Poddubnaia- Arnoldi in the second half of the 20th century opened a new stage in comparative and experimental embryology of angiosperms.
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Alexandru Ciubotaru, Angela TONIUC, Constantin TOMA
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VERA ALEXEEVNA PODDUBNAIA-ARNOLDI (22.05.1902 18.03.1985) COMMEMORATION OF THE 115 YEARS SINCE THE BIRTH OF THE GREAT EMBRYOLOGIST
This article celebrates the personality of Russian Academician Vera Poddubnaia- Arnoldi on the occasion of 115 years since her birth. The great plant embryologist Vera Poddubnaia-Arnoldi was born on May 22 1902, in Kursk...