{"id":213178,"date":"2022-11-05T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=213178"},"modified":"2022-11-05T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:59:23","slug":"remembering-ek-janaki-ammal-indias-first-woman-phd-in-botanical-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/remembering-ek-janaki-ammal-indias-first-woman-phd-in-botanical-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering EK Janaki Ammal, India\u2019s first woman PhD in Botanical Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/span><\/b>The post is based on the article<\/span>\u00a0\u201cRemembering EK Janaki Ammal, India\u2019s first woman PhD in Botanical Sciences\u201d<\/span><\/b>\u00a0published in<\/span>\u00a0the Indian Express <\/span><\/b>on\u00a0<\/span>5th November 2022.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

The 125th birth anniversary of Janaki Ammal was recently observed.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who was Janaki Ammal?<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n

Janaki Ammal was born in 1897. She was a pioneering botanist and the first Indian woman to be awarded a PhD in the botanical sciences. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She is known widely for her contributions to science \u2013 in the field of genetics, cytology, evolution and more.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She worked on making several intergeneric and interspecific hybrids involving sugarcane and related grass species. These works were highly significant as they have been responsible for creating sugarcane hybrids that yielded sweeter sugar.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She was invited by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to reorganize the Botanical Survey of India<\/strong> in 1951, which explores the plant resources of the country and identifies plant species with economic virtue.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She served as the head of the Central Botanical Laboratory in Allahabad and as an Officer of Special Duty at the Regional Research Laboratory in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Her association with the Save the Silent Valley movement<\/strong> \u2013 a campaign to stop a hydroelectric project from flooding the Silent Valley forest in Palakkad district of Kerala is also well-known.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cRemembering EK Janaki Ammal, India\u2019s first woman PhD in Botanical Sciences\u201d\u00a0published in\u00a0the Indian Express on\u00a05th November 2022.\u00a0 What is the News?\u00a0 The 125th birth anniversary of Janaki Ammal was recently observed.\u00a0\u00a0 Who was Janaki Ammal?\u00a0 Janaki Ammal was born in 1897. She was a pioneering botanist and the… Continue reading Remembering EK Janaki Ammal, India\u2019s first woman PhD in Botanical Sciences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-213178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700270520},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}