Peisong Tang, Chinese plant physiologist (Xishui, Hubei Province 12
November 1903 – 06
September 2001) ACHIEVEMENTS
Authored about 200 scientific papers First Chinese biologist who published in famous magazines Nature and
Science Proved the existence of cytochrome oxidase in plants (1932) First experimentally proved the existence of carbonic anhydrase in
plants First to prove the existence of inducible enzymes in plants With
H.Y. Wu. Adaptive formation of nitrate reductase in rice seedlings.
Nature 179:1355-6, 1957
Proposed that there exist various interconnected respiratory metabolic
pathways and electron transfers at the same plant or proposed
the concept of multiple pathways in respiratory metabolism Firstly put forward the concept of control of respiration by enzyme
reactions and respiratory control of physiological activities in living and
intact tissues (1950s) With Zhu Xi Wang (J.S. Wang) enunciated the theory of cellular water potential and applied the term water potential to cellular water relations With J. S. Wang. A thermodynamic formulation of the water relations in
an isolated living cell. J. Phys. Chem. 45:443-53, 1941 Developed a respirometer vessel for study of metabolism of seeds
(1932) Papers
in Nature & Science With S.L. Chen, B.L. Cheng & W.K. Cheng. An atibiotic substance in the Chinese water chestnut Eleocharis tuberosa. Nature 156:234, 1945 With W.S. Loo. Polyploidy in soybean, pea, wheat and rice, induced by colchicine treatment. Science 91(2357):222, 1940 Eponym of Tang’s equation |
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