Janaki Ammal
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Indian botanist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Edavalath Kakkat Janaki Ammal was an Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics and phytogeography. Her most notable work involved studies on sugarcane and the eggplant . She also worked on the cytogenetics of a range of plants and co-authored the Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants with C.D. Darlington. She took an interest in ethnobotany and plants of medicinal and economic value from the rain forests of Kerala, India. She was awarded Padma Shri by the then prime minister of India in 1977.
Janaki Ammal's Published Works
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- Chromosome atlas of cultivated plants (1946) (241)
- A Saccharum-Zea Cross (1938) (25)
- The origin of the black mulberry (1948) (18)
- Polyploidy in Solanum Melongena Linn (1934) (18)
- Chromosome numbers in species of Lonicera (1952) (15)
- Oil content in relation to polyploidy inCymbopogon (1966) (14)
- Chromosome Numbers in Sugarcane × Bamboo Hybrids (1938) (11)
- Breaking the barrier to polyploidy in the genusEucalyptus (1969) (9)
- Chromosome relationships in cultivated species of camellia. (1990) (7)
- Polyploidy and vitamin C inEmblica officinalis gaertn (1958) (7)
- Further studies in Saccharum-zea hybrid I. Mitotic studies1 (1972) (6)
- Chromosome Numbers in Sugarcane × Bamboo Hybrids (1938) (3)
- Observations on the glycoalkaloid content of diploid and tetraploid Solanum khasianum Clarke (1971) (3)
- ISO-chromosomes and the origin of triploidy in hybrids between old and new world species ofPhiladelphus (1958) (3)
- Induced tetraploidy inDioscorea deltoidea wall (1962) (3)
- Induced tetraploidy inSolanum khasianum clarke (1971) (3)
- Cytomorphological studies in autotetraploidAsparagus officinalis L. (1967) (2)
- A triploid Kniphofia. (1950) (1)
- Tetraploidy and alkaloid content inDatura metel Linn (1970) (1)
- Karyology of Costus malortieanus H. Wendl (1987) (0)
- Induced tetraploidy inCatharanthus roseus (L) G. Don (1963) (0)
- Chromosome relationship inCalendula species (1962) (0)
- HeredityVersus environment in the production of alkaloids inRauvolfia serpentina (1967) (0)
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