Indian Botanists announces 'Book Review Series' of Non -Text Book Related to Plants.

If you have recently read any book related to Plants, Environment, Agriculture, Climate Change, Food Security, Medicinal Plants and Herbs or any interdisciplinary area thereof and is Non-Text Book, you are encouraged to write a review of the same. Your review will be published on www.indianbotanists.com.

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Last date to submit complete review is 31st December 2016.

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Editorial: Special Issue on International Women’s Day 2015

Dear Plant-lovers,

We are extremely happy to bring to you the special issue of Indian Botanists on the eve of International Women’s Day. We take this opportunity to highlight some of the most significant contributions of Indian women botanists.

Gender issues are prevalent in science and India is no exception. For instance, women scientists are fewer in number than men, they occupy fewer positions of power, and face distinct issues by virtue of their gender and the accompanying societal pressures. Indian Botanists has been working to achieve its goal of creating awareness about plant science in our society. International Women’s Day would be the best time for publishing articles highlighting the contributions of some great women botanists of India.

A Dialogue with Professor Judy Jernstedt about Botany and 100 years of American J of Botany

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Cover- American J Botany; 101(1)

American Journal of Botany, was launched in 1914. Since then over a period of hundred years AJB has published approximately 16500 articles, with an average of more than 160 and 13 articles per year and month respectively. Many articles published in AJB are highly cited and are from various sub-disciplines of botany. It possess the pride of publishing many breakthrough research publication which were significant in understanding the structure, function and further advancement of mechanism in plants.

To celebrate the completion of a century and stepping forward in its second century of publication, AJB will feature monthly invited AJB Centennial Review Papers. It will also bring a special issue, 'Speaking of Food: Connecting Basic and Applied Science' which probably will consists the paper presented at colloquium during Botany-2013 Conference.

Sipra Guha Mukherjee - An Inspiration to Many Indian Women Botanists

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Happy International Women's Day 2014!

Since the days of my higher secondary school, I have observed Botany is always dominated by female. In a class of thirty postgraduate students at Ranchi University, India, each year the average admission of male students were five to six in number. Whereas in other departments like physics and chemistry the ratio was reverse. However when it comes to male and female ratio among teachers in the department of botany, again the number of male professor were  higher than that of female professors. Lower number of female botanists cannot be linked to inspiring girls and female students to consider science as a career path. Perhaps problem lies in retaining women in academia after they have obtained their degrees. Science subjects including plant sciences have the history of lower female scientists and academician than male.

Indian Botanists Remembers One Among Many Indian Women Botanists : Dr. Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal

 (On the Occasion of International Women's Day )

Dr. Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal

 Born - 4th November 1897

Schooling - Tellichery, Kerala

Bachelor’s degree - Queen Mary’s College, Madras (now Chennai)

Honours degree in Botany- Presidency College , Madras in 1921

Master’s degree - Universityof Michiganin, USA in 1925

DSc (Oriental Barbour Fellow)- Michigan in1931

Professor of Botany - Maharaja’s College of Science, Trivandrum Kerala (1932-34)

Geneticist - Sugarcane Breeding Institute at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu (1934-1939)

Assistant Cytologist - JohnInnes Horticultural Institution, London (1940-50)

Cytologist -Royal Horticultural Society at Wisley during 1945–51

Special Officer - BotanicalSurvey of India (BSI), 1951

Served Govt. of India in various capacities - 1951 to 1970

Associated with Centre for Advanced Study in Botany, Universityof Madras as Emeritus Scientists.

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William Roxburgh – The Father of Indian Botany

Photo: William Roxburgh (Courtesy: wikipedia)

Much development in Botany took place during British Empire in India. Linnean system of ‘Binomial nomenclature’ was introduced only in 1778 by the natural historian engaged with the British East India Company. During this period, botanical gardens were being founded in every significant city in India to study the natural history of the plants. Many botanists and surveyors were recruited by East India Company to report and record Indian flora. One such botanist of this period and the founding father of Indian botany by his contemporaries was William Roxburgh.

                  William Roxburgh was born on June 29th 1751. Different dates published in various sources disputes his date of birth. Royal Botanic Garden, Kew on its website mentions birth place of Roxburgh in Underwood, Ayrshire. He matriculated at Edinburgh University in 1771-1772 to study surgery under Dr. Alexender Monro. Further he was also the student of Dr. John Hope, professor of botany and materia medica. Roxburgh reached Madras (now Chennai) in 1776 as an assistant surgeon in the East India Company’s Madras General Hospital. For the period 1776-1793 he worked at Coromandel Coast, during this period he also met Johann Gerhard Konig (pupil of Linneaeus, who introduced binomial nomenclature in India). In 1789 he was appointed as natural historian of East Indian India Company. He moved to Calcutta (now Kolkata) to be the superintendent of the Botanic Garden, the present Indian Botanical Garden at Sheopur, Howrah, and Kolkata. Working here, he started getting world-wide recognition as a botanist. He was instrumental in introducing many plant and species to India and simultaneously he sent many species to Kew, London. His Voluminous work, ‘Flora Indica’ was published after his death. Roxburgh left for England from Calcutta in 1813 at the age of 62 spending some 37 years in India. He died at Edinburgh in 1815. Interesting to know that William Roxburgh, Botanists had 3 wives having same first name viz.  1. Mary Bonte 2.Mary Huttemann, 3. Mary Boswell and thereby left a large family behind him. 

Dr. Tin Robinson in his PhD thesis mentioned about a short review of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, written in 1971 wherein it was mentioned, “Dr William Roxburgh was one of the greatest botanists of his time, and during his term converted the garden in its character from its original economic purpose to the service of scientific botany”.  He is often referred as “the Linnaeus of India” The tireless work of Roxburgh earned him the sobriquet ‘The Father of Indian Botany’.

Books on William Roxburgh biography
William Roxburgh: The Founding Father of Indian Botany	William Roxburgh. Indian Botanical Garden. East India Company
Author: Tim Robinson Publisher: Phillimore & Company	Authors: Lambert M Surhone, Miriam T Timpledon,  Susan F Marseken Publisher: Betascript Publishing,   (Editor)
Indian Botanists Blog-o-Journal may publish the review of these books in near future.

 

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