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NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY. 28 FEB 2022. G.PULLA REDDY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.
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. Janaki Ammal. An Indian botanist who made significant… | by Sci-Illustrate | Sci-Illustrate Stories | Medium.
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Janaki was born in Thalassery, Kerala.. Janaki did her primary schooling at Sacred Heart Convent in Thalassery followed by Queen Mary's College, Madras. She obtained an Honours degree in Botany from the Presidency College And then moved to the University of Michigan in 1924, obtaining a master's degree in botany in 1926 with a Barbour Scholarship..
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She became Professor of Botany at the Maharaja’s College of Science in Trivandrum and served there as Assistant Professor for two years between 1932 and 1934..
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In 1939 she went to attend the 7th International Congress of Genetics, Edinburgh and was forced to stay on due to World War II. She then spent the next six years at the John Innes Centre as an assistant cytologist to C.D. Darlington. Together they published a Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants in 1945..
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HER CONTRIBUTIONS. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant (brinjal)..
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HER WORKS. First director of the Central Botanical Laboratory at Allahabad ..
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Awards and honours. She was elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1935, and of the Indian National Science Academy in 1957 ..
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The Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Government of India instituted the National Award of Taxonomy in her name in 2000.
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In 2018, to celebrate her remarkable career and contribution to plant science, two rose breeders, Girija and Viru Viraraghavan bred a new rose variety which they named E.K. Janaki Ammal ..
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