title: [The priority contribution of academician A.L. Kursanov's scientific school to the study of oxygen metabolism and anaerobiosis in plants].
abstract: The biographical data on scientific activity of Academician A.L. Kursanov are presented. The contribution of A.L. Kursanov and his school to study of oxygen metabolism and plants anaerobiosis is reviewed. Special attention is given to the works on plant respiration, biosynthesis of endogenous water within plants and animals, mechanism of vitamin A biosynthesis and the metabolism of intracellular water studied with 18O methods. The important works of A.L. Kursanov's school that played an essential role in establishing the new brunch of science at the interface of physiology, biochemistry and ecology of plants, focused on the plant anaerobiosis theory are considered in details.
authors.affiliation: K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plants Physiology of RAS, 127276 Moscow, Botanicheskaya Str., 35, Russia. borisvartapet@ippras.ru
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Vartapetian
mesh_terms: D000693:Anaerobiosis; D049673:History, 20th Century; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism*; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history; D018521:Plant Physiological Phenomena; D010944:Plants / Q000378:metabolism*; D014801:Vitamin A / Q000096:biosynthesis; D014867:Water / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D014867:Water; D014801:Vitamin A; D010100:Oxygen