How to develop botany into public vision

The development process of botany

16th century

The huge progress on botany was triggered by the invention of microscope. In 1665, as a discoverer of cell, Robert Hook observed the cork tissue of plants with a microscope and found that it was composed of many regular chambers. He named it as "Chamber" cell. In the same year, Hook observed the thin slices of cork (oak bark) with a self-made microscope (magnification of 40~140 times), and firstly described the structure of plant cells, and take the Latin word “cell” to call such structure he observed.

17th century

Botanists no longer focused on studying herbs. Gaspard Bauhin put forward many effective new concepts. The work of Robert Hooke, Nehemiah grey and Marcello Malpighi created plant anatomy. Hook created the word "cell".

18th century

Experimental physiology preliminarily proved that plants absorb water and carbon dioxide under the sun and release oxygen. In 1753, Carolus Linnaeus published the book “Flora of Plants”, who established the double name system, and used reproductive traits (flowers) as an important classification basis.

19th century

The work of Darwin and Mendel laid the foundation for the concept of plant evolution.

20th century

Botany had made more rapid progress including the clarification of photosynthesis mechanism, the discovery of phytochrome, the discovery of plant hormones, study on the action of trace elements, the progress of genetic breeding technology, the establishment of isotope dating method, discovery of algae like and bacteria like fossils in Precambrian rocks and separation of anti-biomass, etc.