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Szymon Syreniusz i jego dzieło [Simon Sirenius and his work]
Krzysztof Rostański
Simon Sirenius (Syreniusz in Polish) [ca 1540-1611], the famous Polish botanist and physician of Renaissance, studied medicine at first at the Cracow University, then (1569-1577) in Germany (Ingolstadt) and Italy (Padua), but he was interested especially in botany. He travelled over Germany, Italy and Switzerland visiting botanic gardens in Augsburg, Mainz, Heidelberg and Padua. During his stay in Western Europe he studied botanic literature of the 16th century and above all the works of Andrea Matthioli, the drawings of which were included later into his Herbal. After coming back to Poland he worked at the beginning as the physician in Lwów, making the botanic trips to Podolia, Volhynia and the Carpathians, the notices about plants growing there may be found in his Herbal. In 1588 he went to live to Cracow, where up to his death in 1611 he was the professor in the Faculty of Medicine of the Cracow University. Living in Cracow he worked out and prepared to print the work of his life – the Herbal. Unfortunately, this Herbal was printed after his death, in 1613 and edited by his friend and the successor in the Faculty of Medicine, Gabriel Joannicy, who attained a financial support for the costs of print from the Swedish princess Anna Vasa, the sister of the King of Poland, Sigismundus III Vasa. The Herbal by S. Sirenius belongs to the greatest botanic-medical works of the botany of European Renaissance (having 1581 pages and numerous illustrations), but being written in Polish it was distributed only in historical Poland and Russia. According to the last informations from the libraries, there are preserved up today together 94 copies, 87 in Poland and 7 in adjacent countries (3 in Kiev, Ukraine, 2 in St. Petersburg and 1 in Rostov/Don, Russia and 1 in Trokai, Lithuania).
Słowa kluczowe: Herbal, Renaissance, history of botany, physician, botanist, Cracow University
Strony: 7-12
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Małe, izolowane populacje na skraju zasięgu geograficznego – niektóre procesy ekologiczne i genetyczne [Small, isolated plant populations at geographical range borders – some ecological and genetic processes]
Józef Mitka
Variation between plant populations of the same taxon has been investigated from the beginning of modern botany. Methods of allozyme polymorphism enable the deeper insight into genetic structure in marginal populations at species borders and those from the centre of species distributions. There are presumed some specific processes in marginal populations, e.g. environmental stochasticity and related ecological bottleneck, founder effect, genetic drift, inbreeding depression, high level of homozygosity and subsequent genetic erosion. Recently this problem is deeply penetrated with the aid of PCR methods. There are observed some discrepancies between the structure of genetic variation vs. morphometric variation of a population in various spatial scales. Genetic erosion in small and isolated at margin limits populations is observed in some circumstances. On the other hand, it seems that demographic and environmental factors (e.g. ecological bottleneck) may sometimes play greater role in determining extinction probabilities than population genetics. A promising field is the phenotypic plasticity studied across various environments, yielding information on reaction norms. A relation between quantitative variation of phenotypic characters and genetic variability (polymorphism) at various spatial scales and level of genetic variance in limiting traits at range margin remain open questions.
Słowa kluczowe: genetic erosion, intraspecific diversity, polymorphism, range limits, morphometric and allozymic variation, among and within population differentiation
Strony: 13-34
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Plasmodesmy komórki roślinnej – współczesne poglądy na budowę i funkcje [Plasmodesmata of the plant cell – current opinion about structure and function]
Rafał Butowt
Current knowledge about cell junctions (called plasmodesmata) is reviewed. The role of plant and viral factors, which probably regulate plasmodesmata permeability, is discussed. An increase in plasmodesmata permeability accompanies for viral infection of plant cells. The movement proteins responsible for this phenomenon are encoded by viral genes. The role of the plasmodesmata in regulation of differentiation processes at the level of tissue and organ is emphasized.
Słowa kluczowe: plasmodesmata, plant intercellular conjunction, intercellular transport, virus movement proteins
Strony: 35-49
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Portrety botaników polskich [Portraits of Polish botanists]
Strony: 51-52
Szymon Syreński
Alicja Zemanek
Emil Godlewski senior
Alicja Zemanek
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Rozstania [Obituaries]
Strony: 53-57
Mgr Henryk Stasiak (19 III 1911 – 30IX 1996)
Adam Wołk
Dr hab. Zygmunt Popiołek, profesor nadzwyczajny Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie (10 IV 1942 – 6 VIII 1996) [Dr hab. Zygmunt Popiołek, Professor of the Maria Curie-Sklodowska Universily in Lublin (10 IV 1942 – 6 VIII 1996)]
Bożena Czarnecka
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Rocznice, jubileusze [Anniversaries, jubilees]
Strony: 57-58
Pro memoria (E. Godlewski sen., L. Garbowski, B. Szafran, S. B. Jundziłł, F. K. Skupieński)
Alicja Zemanek
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Sprawozdania ze spotkań naukowych [Scientific meeting reports]
Strony: 58-66
Międzynarodowa Konferencja “Biologia rozmnażania w systematyce, ochronie roślin i botanice ekonomicznej” (Królewskie Ogrody Botaniczne w Kew, Wielka Brytania, 1-5 września 1996) [“Reproductive biology in systematics, conservation and economic botany” – an intemational conference at the Royal Botanic Gardens (Kew, Great Britain, 1-5 September 1996)]
Renata Śnieżko, Ewa Szczuka
III Sympozjum Międzynarodowego Stowarzyszenia Lichenologicznego (IAL) (Salzburg, Austria, 1-7 września 1996) [The 3rd Symposium of International Association for Lichenology (IAL) (Salzburg, Austria, 1-7 September 1996)]
Beata Sągin
Archeobotanika na XIII Międzynarodowym Kongresie Nauk Pre- i Protohistorycznych (Forli, Wiochy, 8-14 września 1996) [13th International Congress of Prehistorie and Protohistoric Sciences (Forli, Italy, 8-14 September 1996)]
Joanna Jarosińska, Małgorzata Latałowa, Krystyna Wasylikowa
39 Sympozjum Międzynarodowego Stowarzyszenia do Badań Roślinności (IAVS) “Nauka o roślinności i ekologia krajobrazu” (Lancaster, Anglia, 10-16 września 1996) [39th Symposium of Intemational Association for Vegetation Science (IAVS) “Vegetation Science and Landscape Ecology” (Lancaster, England, 10-16 September 1996)]
Stefania Loster
Jedenasty Kongres Włoskiego Towarzystwa Muzeów Naukowych, Ogrodów Botanicznych, Ogrodów Zoologicznych i Akwariów (Neapol, Włochy, 23-27 września 1996) [11th Congress of the Italian Association of Scientific Museums, Botanical Gardens, Zoos and Aquaria (Naples, Italy, 23-27 September 1996)]
Alicja Zemanek
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Z życia PTB [Polish Botanical Society News]
Strony: 67-67
“Czwartki botaniczne” Krakowskiego Oddziału PTB w pierwszym kwartale 1997 r. [“Botanical Thursdays” of the Cracow Division of the Polish Botanical Society, 1st quarter of 1997]
Józef Mitka
Zebranie Sekcji Historii Botaniki PTB (Kraków, 24 kwietnia 1997). [Meeting of the Section of History of Botany of the Polish Botanical Society (Kraków, 24 April 1997)]
Piotr Köhler
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Varia
Strony: 67-77
XIII konkurs dendrologiczny „Znam drzewa i krzewy” [13th Dendrological Competition “I know trees and shrubs”]
Jeremi Kołodziejczyk
Odkrycie przypuszczalnych pozostałości najstarszego polskiego zielnika królewny Anny Wazówny (XVII w.) [Discovery of the supposed remains of the first Polish herbarium of the King’s daughter Anna Vasa (17th century)]
Alicja Zemanek
Recepcja Zielnika Syreniusza na Żmudzi – rękopis Jerzego Pabreża z 1814 r. [Reception of Zielnik (The Herbal) by Syreniusz in Żmudź – manuscript by Jerzy Pabreż from 1814]
Wanda Grębecka
Leksykon botaników polskich: 21. Szymon Syreński (Syrenius, Syreniusz, Sacranus) [Dictionary of Polish botanists: 21. Szymon Syreński (Syrenius, Syreniusz, Sacranus)]
Alicja Zemanek
Leksykon botaników polskich: 22. Gabriel Joannicy (Joannicius, Joanicy, Joannicki, Hanuszek) [Dictionary of Polish botanists: 22. Gabriel Joannicy (Joannicius, Joanicy, Joannicki, Hanuszek)]
Alicja Zemanek
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Botanika za granicą [Botany abroad]
Strony: 77-77
Towarzystwo Botaniczne w Liege (Belgia) [The Botanical Society of Liege (Belgium)]
Jolanta Adamczyk
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Muzea, archiwa, zbiory [Museum, archives, collections]
Strony: 77-81
Wystawa “Złote jabłka” w Muzeum Botanicznym Berlin-Dahlem [Exhibitkm “The Golden Apples” at the Botanical Museum, Berlin-Dahlem]
Alicja Zemanek
Ikonoteka i notatki florystyczne Augusta Konstantego hr. Krasickiego w Muzeum Botanicznym i Pracowni Historii Botaniki im. J. Dyakowskiej Ogrodu Botanicznego Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego [Collection of drawings and floristical records of Count August Konstanty Krasicki stored at the J. Dyakowska Botanical Museum and History of Botany Research Unit (the Jagiellonian University, Botanic Garden, Kraków, Poland)]
Piotr Köhler
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Nowe periodyki i serie [New periodicals and series]
Strony: 82-85
Jan J. Wójcicki
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Recenzje [Book reviews]
Strony: 85-92
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Nadchodzące spotkania [Forthcoming meetings]
Strony: 92-95
Jan J. Wójcicki
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Literatura botanicza
Strony: 96-98
Jan J. Wójcicki
