Brown A H
Gravitational Plant Physiology Laboratory, University City Science Center, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
ASGSB Bull. 1992 Oct;5(2):43-57.
The use of centrifugation as a tool for exploring qualitative and quantitative features of plant responses to gravity and to other body forces can be traced to plant scientists' early 19th century experiments. To study how plants perceive and respond to gravitational stimuli requires experimental manipulation of the force or acceleration vector direction and magnitude. As technology advanced, especially during the past half-century, so did the sophistication of experimental designs and of the scientific questions that could be addressed. The most significant improvement in methodology probably will prove to be attainment of experimental access to the hypogravity range of inertial accelerations by the combination of centrifugation and spaceflight.
将离心法用作探索植物对重力及其他体力的定性和定量特征的工具，可追溯到19世纪早期植物科学家的实验。要研究植物如何感知并响应重力刺激，需要对力或加速度矢量的方向和大小进行实验操控。随着技术进步，尤其是在过去的半个世纪里，实验设计以及能够解决的科学问题的复杂性也在提高。方法学上最显著的改进可能将证明是通过离心法和太空飞行相结合，实现对惯性加速度微重力范围的实验性探究。
