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质疑、创新与合理性——纪念《植物学通报》创刊主编曹宗巽先生诞辰100周年

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  • 北京大学生命科学学院, 北京 100871

收稿日期: 2020-05-01

  录用日期: 2020-05-07

  网络出版日期: 2020-05-07

基金资助

国家自然科学基金重大研究计划(90717113)

Critical Thinking, Alternative Interpretation, and Logic Consistency —To Commemorate the 100 Birthday of then Professor Tsunghsing Tsao (Zong-Xun Cao), the Founding Editor-in-chief of the Chinese Bulletin of Botany

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  • School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Received date: 2020-05-01

  Accepted date: 2020-05-07

  Online published: 2020-05-07

摘要

为纪念《植物学通报》创刊主编曹宗巽先生诞辰100周年, 该文回顾了作者与曹先生结识的机缘和承接其未竟的黄瓜(Cucumis sativus)单性花发育调控机制研究衣钵的过程, 以及从实验结果到传统解释的逻辑困境, 通过追溯曹先生当年带回国内的有关植物性别研究早期专著而找到问题源头的柳暗花明的经历。同时分享了由于这段独特而宝贵的研究经历而引发的对什么是科学研究这个基本问题的思考, 希望对有志于探索未知自然的年轻人有所裨益。

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白书农 . 质疑、创新与合理性——纪念《植物学通报》创刊主编曹宗巽先生诞辰100周年[J]. 植物学报, 2020 , 55(3) : 274 -278 . DOI: 10.11983/CBB20066

Abstract

May 4th 2020 is the 100th birthday of the then professor Tsunghsing Tsao (Zong-Xun Cao), the founding editor-in-chief of the Chinese Bulletin of Botany. To commemorate this special moment, the author shared some pieces of his memory upon the first meeting with her, the experience of carried on her almost life-long project of study of unisexual flower development in cucumber, and the finding of the logic inconsistency between our experimental observations and traditional interpretation of unisexual flower as a model system to investigate plant sex differentiation. In addition, the author shared some of his thought on what is scientific research, which was intrigued from his unique experience of working with the unisexual flower of cucumber. The thought might provide an alternative view on the issue for the youth who are interested in dedicating into exploration of unknown nature.

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