India’s achievements in agriculture and science are often celebrated, yet the pioneers behind these successes are frequently overlooked. One such trailblazer is Dr Janaki Ammal, the pioneering ...

Long before India emerged as one of the world’s leading sugar producers, its fields told a different story. Farmers cultivated sugarcane, yet the crop often lacked the sweetness needed for large-scale ...

Dr Janaki Ammal, India's first female botany PhD, revolutionised sugarcane by breeding high-yield, sweeter varieties suited to Indian soil. Her work helped India become a top sugarcane producer, yet ...

: Just a fortnight before the International Women’s Day, the John Innes Centre in Norfolk, UK, announced a new scholarship for post-graduate students from developing countries in honour of an Indian ...

Remembering Dr Janaki Ammal, pioneering botanist, cytogeneticist and passionate Gandhian The plant scientist, who put the sweetness into our sugarcane varieties, served as the head of the Botanical ...

The life and remarkable achievements of E. K. Janaki Ammal, the Kerala-born scientist often described as India’s first woman botanist, have now been detailed in a 400-page book written by a former ...

On 31 July, Smithsonian, published by the Smithsonian Institution of the US, hailed Janaki Ammal as a forgotten but pioneering female botanist from India, who “sweetened a nation and saved a valley”.

This year’s Chelsea Flower Show has celebrated eight “Heroines of Horticulture”, among them the Indian botanist Dr Janaki Ammal, who struggled against the odds and especially male prejudice to make ...

This page gives information about VLB Janaki Ammal College of Arts and Science, its address and location, academic information, infrastructure and facilities etc ...

The faculty member of Indian Institute of Delhi Prof. Neetu Singh has been awarded with the Janaki Ammal-National Women Bioscientist Award 2020-21 under the ‘Young category'. The award carries a cash ...