俄国植物生理学家里最伟大的、最卓越生物学家里的一个、季米里亚席夫这样地规定植物生理学的任务:“植物生理学追求的目的在于研究和解释植物有机体的生活现象,并且不仅是要研究和解释它们,而要用这种研究和解释使它们完全服从于人们的合理意志。这样,人就可以随意来改变、阻止和引起这些现象。生理学家不能满足于观察者的被动任务;作为一个实践家,他是控制自然的工作者。” One of the greatest and most prominent biologists in Russian plant physiologists, Jimiriya Schiff, sets the task of plant physiology: “The purpose of plant physiology is to study and explain the living phenomena of plant organisms, and not only to To study and explain them, and to use them to submit themselves wholly to the will of the people so that they are free to alter, prevent, and cause these phenomena Physiologists are not content with observers’ passive tasks; as A practitioner, he is a worker who controls nature. ”