ABSTRACT
N.M. Emanuel Institute of biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences 4 Kosygin Street, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Studying kinetic regularities of animal and human cancer development, N.M. Emanuel has also noticed tumor processes in plants. In 1975, he established the laboratory for physicochemical fundamentals of herbal system stability. One of the tasks of this laboratory was the study of regularities of cancer disease development in plants and possibilities of their inhibition using bioantioxidants. Investigations were carried out both in the laboratory and in the field on the classical type of plant tumors, induced by phytopathogen Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Town) Conn. The study of tumor growth, induced by this phytopathogen in tomatoes and greens indicated description of this process by an S-shaped kinetic curve (Figure 1), i.e. they obey one of the laws defining development of tumors in animals [1,2].
