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Anthesis Volume 12:2016-17
Anthesis Volume 12: 2016-2017 Special Focus: Recent Advances in Plant Sciences Department of Botany Gargi College, Siri Fort Road, New Delhi-110049 Anthesis Volume 12: 2016-17 SPECIAL FOCUS: RECENT ADVANCES IN PLANT SCIENCES Contents All the topics listed below have been hyper-linked to the corresponding articles. Click on the topics to read the article. You can come back to the contents page by clicking on the link at the end of every article. S.No. Title 1 From the Principal‟s desk 2 From the Teacher-In-charge‟s desk 3 From the Editor‟s desk 4 Heartiest Tribute 5 Timeless memories College events 6 Golden Jubilee year inauguration 7 Zistatva- the annual NCC cultural festival 8 Lohri celebration 9 Sports day 10 Reverie- Gargi‟s Cultural fest 11 Scintillations- the annual Science festival Departmental events 12 Faculty members and non-teaching members 13 Batch photographs 14 GCBS and Golden jubilee inauguration 15 Members of GCBS: Taru 16 Annual Report of GCBS 17 Golden Jubilee lecture series 18 A day for the teachers 19 Swacchh Bharat Abhiyan 20 Add-on course 21 Competitions 22 Semester Toppers 23 Farewell 2016 24 Grand Alumni Meet 25 Pathfinder project Articles Various Advancing Fields 26 Plants can sense far more than what humans think 27 Growing plants in space 28 Autophagy 29 Genetically modified crops 30 Predatory journals 31 Recent Advances Molecular Biology 32 Molecular biology as a tool in taxonomy 33 Bioinformatics- storehouse of biological data 34 DNA bar-coding 35 Role of Telomere‟s in life expectancy Industrial Botany 36 Biofuels- energizing world sustainably 37 Natural cosmetics 38 Nanotechnology 39 Hybrids Fruit or Vegetable 40 Agricultural technologies and food security Medicinal and Ethnobotany 41 Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants 42 Dips in biodiversity 43 Moringa- the Indian superfood 44 Herbal drugs Environment conservation 45 Afforestation 46 Carbon Footprinting 47 Conservation through biodiversity parks 48 Phytoremediation 49 Famous plant- Giloy 50 Famous botanist- Dr. -
Bright Sparks Introduction.P65
BRIGHT SPARKS INSPIRING INDIAN SCIENTISTS FROM THE PAST by Arvind Gupta illustrated by Karen Haydock CONTENTS A. Cursetjee ........................................... 1 Nain Singh Rawat ................................. 6 J. C. Bose ............................................ 10 P. C. Ray ............................................... 14 Ruchi Ram Sahni ................................ 18 D. N. Wadia ......................................... 22 S. Ramanujan ...................................... 26 C. V. Raman ........................................ 30 S. K. Mitra ........................................... 35 Birbal Sahni ......................................... 39 J. B. S. Haldane ................................... 44 P. C. Mahalanobis ............................... 49 M. N. Saha ........................................... 53 S. N. Bose ............................................ 57 S. S. Bhatnagar .................................... 61 Yellapragada SubbaRow .................... 65 Salim Ali .............................................. 69 K. S. Krishnan .................................... 74 V. N. Shirodkar ................................... 78 T. R. Seshadri ...................................... 82 P. Maheshwari ..................................... 86 Irawati Karve ...................................... 90 B. P. Pal ................................................ 94 D. D. Kosambi ................................... 98 Homi Bhabha ................................... 103 Subrahmanian Chandrasekhar........ 107 Vikram Sarabhai -
A Tribute Professor Krishnaji (January 13, 1922 — August 14, 1997)
iv A Tribute Professor Krishnaji (January 13, 1922 — August 14, 1997) Edited by Govindjee Urbana, Illinois, USA and Shyam Lal Srivastava Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India i The Cover A photograph of Krishnaji (Dada), 1980 Editors Govindjee, the youngest brother of Krishnaji, lives at 2401 South Boudreau, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA E-mail: [email protected] Shyam Lal Srivastava, a former doctoral student, and a long time colleague of Krishnaji, lives at 189/129 Allenganj, Allahabad-211002, Uttar Pradesh (UP), India E-mail: [email protected] All rights reserved Copyright © 2010 Govindjee No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission of Govindjee or Shyam Lal Srivastava. Printed at Apex Graphics, Buxi Bazar, Allahabad – 211003, India ii Remembering Three Generations of Krishnaji Krishnaji (Dada) (1922 – 1997) Bimla (Bhabhi) (1927 – 2007) Deepak (1949 – 2008) Ranjan (1952 – 1992) Manju (1954 – 1986) Neera (1973 – 1988) Rajya Ashish (1983 – 1986) Rajya Vishesh (1985 – 1986) iii iv Preface he primary goal of this book is to pay tribute to Professor T Krishnaji, who we call Dada. He was a great human being, a friend to the young and the old, a visionary teacher, a remarkable scientist, an institution builder, an academician, and an excellent and effective administrator. And, at the same time, he was a loving and loyal son, a loving brother, a loving husband, a loving father, and a loving grandfather. A second and equally important goal of this book is to present his life and that of his dear wife Bimla Asthana (Bhabhi to one of us, Govindjee (G), and Jiya to the other, Shyam Lal Srivastava) to his extended family, friends, relatives, students and professional scientists around the World. -
Bs21pmaheshwari.Pdf
I NDIAN Young Maheshwari was exceptional in studies. He did MSc (1927) and DSc (1931) under Dudgeon’s guidance. He studied N the morphology, anatomy and embryology of angiosperms - A TIONAL the class of plants which produce flowers. After completing P. Maheshwari his studies Maheshwari went to his mentor to offer him guru dakshina. Quick came the reply, “Do for your students what I have S (1904 – 1966) CIENCE done for you.” This message the young man took to heart. Wherever he went thereafter, whether it was Agra, Dacca or Delhi, he tried to do just that. A CADEMY After joining Agra College in 1931 he immediately set up a school of plant embryology. With meagre resources he acquired a microscope and a microtome. Prof. Panchanan Maheshwari was a legendary scientist who did India proud by At home his unschooled wife Shanti assisted him in preparing professional placing it on the world botanical map. He was born in Jaipur on 9 November slides! 1904. The word Panchanan in Sanskrit means an intellect of five faces or people. INSA The appropriateness of the name soon became apparent. His father was a clerk We know that ovules in the flower of a plant fertilize when an insect or wind but struggled hard to give his son the best possible education. Panchanan PLA brings to it pollen from another plant. This occurs in a cavity inside the flower went to school in Jaipur and cleared Matriculation at the age of 13. Because of called ‘ovary’ and an embryo is the result. The embryo, the unborn baby plant, TINUM JUBILEE his weak eyesight he could not take up medicine, but nevertheless he pursued gets nutrition and food from the surrounding soil and grows up to become a a career in science.