Janet Plowe

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Janet Quentin Plowe
Born1905 (Approx.)
California
DiedOctober 28, 2018
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationM.A., Stanford University, 1922[1]
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1930[2]
Known forPioneer of Micro-injection
Scientific career
FieldsBiology
Academic advisorsWilliam Seifriz

Janet Quentin Plowe was a biologist credited for helping to discover the cell membrane.

Biography[edit]

In 1931 she demonstrated that the cell membrane is physical, instead of an interface between two different liquids.[3] Janet Plowe was born in 1905 in California.[4]

Plowe, a student of William Seifriz,[3] was among the pioneers of micro-injection into plant cells.[5]

She discovered the elasticity and composition of several large organelles, and the cell membrane itself.[6]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Plowe, Janet Quentin (1922). The reduction divisions in the pollen mother-cell of a hybrid cotton (M.A.). Stanford University. OCLC 84164425.
  2. ^ Plowe, Janet Quentin (1930). Membranes in the plant cell (Ph.D.). University of Pennsylvania. OCLC 1049423562.
  3. ^ a b Collander, Runar (2013). "Der Ort des Penetrationswiderstandes". In Bogen, H.J.; Ullrich, H. (eds.). Allgemeine Physiologie der Pflanzenzelle [General Physiology of the Plant Cell] (in German). Springer Verlag. p. 220. ISBN 9783642946769.
  4. ^ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVL3-9B8  : accessed 31 January 2017), Janet Plowe in household of Ian Plowe, Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 277, sheet 15A, family 342, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 84; FHL microfilm 1,374,097.
  5. ^ Waigmann, E.; Zambryski, P. (2000). "Trisome plasmodesmata: A model system for cell-to-cell movement". In Callow, J. A.; Hallahan, D. L.; Gray, J. C. (eds.). Plant Trichomes. Academic Press. p. 262. ISBN 9780120059317.
  6. ^ Plowe, Janet Q. (1931). "Membranes in the plant cell". Protoplasma. 12 (1): 196–220. doi:10.1007/BF01618716. ISSN 0033-183X. S2CID 32248784.