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Her contribution remains mostly unknown outside academic circles
Nearly sixty years after she organised the Botanical Survey of India (BSI), botanists and scientists from different disciplines are celebrating the contribution of E.K. Janaki Ammal, the pioneer whose contribution to Indian botanical research remains mostly unknown outside academic circles.
The scientist is credited with putting sweetness in our sugarcane varieties, speaking against the hydro-electric project in Kerala's Silent Valley and with the phenomenal study of chromosomes of thousands of species of flowering plants titled The Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants , which she co-authored with biologist C.D. Darlington.
“At a time when the...