Janet Plowe
{{short description|American biologist}}
{{Orphan|date=September 2018}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Janet Quentin Plowe
| image =
| birth_date = {{Circa|1905}}
| birth_place = California
| death_date = Unknown
| nationality = American
| fields = Biology
| education = M.A., Stanford University, 1922{{cite thesis |last=Plowe |first=Janet Quentin |date=1922 |title=The reduction divisions in the pollen mother-cell of a hybrid cotton |type=M.A. |publisher=Stanford University |oclc=84164425 }}
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1930{{cite thesis |last=Plowe |first=Janet Quentin |date=1930 |title=Membranes in the plant cell |type=Ph.D. |publisher=University of Pennsylvania |oclc=1049423562 }}
| academic_advisors = William Seifriz
| known_for = Pioneer of Micro-injection
}}
Janet Quentin Plowe was a biologist credited for helping to discover the cell membrane.
Biography
In 1931 she demonstrated that the cell membrane is physical, instead of an interface between two different liquids. Janet Plowe was born in 1905 in California."United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MVL3-9B8 : accessed 31 January 2017), Janet Plowe in household of Ian Plowe, Los Angeles Assembly District 70, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 277, sheet 15A, family 342, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 84; FHL microfilm 1,374,097.
Plowe, a student of William Seifriz,{{cite book|title=Allgemeine Physiologie der Pflanzenzelle |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hPSnBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA220 |editor1-first=H.J. |editor1-last=Bogen |editor2-first=H. |editor2-last=Ullrich |trans-title=General Physiology of the Plant Cell |language=de |page=220 |publisher=Springer Verlag |year=2013 |isbn=9783642946769 |chapter=Der Ort des Penetrationswiderstandes |first=Runar |last=Collander |author-link=Runar Collander}} was among the pioneers of micro-injection into plant cells.{{cite book|title=Plant Trichomes |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gfWEbNju-gC&pg=PA262 |page=262 |first1=E. |last1=Waigmann |first2=P. |last2=Zambryski |editor1-first=J. A. |editor1-last=Callow |editor2-first=D. L. |editor2-last=Hallahan |editor3-first=J. C. |editor3-last=Gray |publisher=Academic Press |year=2000 |isbn=9780120059317 |chapter=Trisome plasmodesmata: A model system for cell-to-cell movement}}
She discovered the elasticity and composition of several large organelles, and the cell membrane itself.{{Cite journal|last=Plowe|first=Janet Q.|title=Membranes in the plant cell|journal=Protoplasma|language=en|volume=12|issue=1|pages=196–220|doi=10.1007/BF01618716|issn=0033-183X|year=1931|s2cid=32248784}}
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Category:20th-century American biologists
Category:20th-century American women scientists
Category:American women biologists
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
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