Abstract
As a part of SAKURA program (a Japan-France collaborative research program), we conducted a survey on the historical corpus of sciences (especially that of botanical science) based on the literatures originated from Univ. Paris (Sorbonne), one of the world oldest Universities (establishment in 1211). The Sorbonne-derived botanical literatures re-collected in recent two years include a number of classical books, doctoral theses and journals (dated between 1815 and 1970). Most of them are now preserved in Japan and registered as the open-access sources for future analyses. In this presentation, some of very early works on the plant responses to environmental changes and plant-microbe interactions at the cellular level will be reviewed by showing the original literatures. In addition, recent evidences (obtained through molecular biological, biochemical and electro-physiological experiments) in support of historical views on plant sensing mechanism will be provided for discussion.
