INDIAN SCIENTISTS

1) B.B MUNDKUR:

• He worked on the control of cotton wilt diseases.
• He is responsible for the identification and classification of large number of Indian smut fungi
• He started Indian Phytopathological Society in 1948 and published a journal Indian Phytopathology.
• His book – Fungi and Plant diseases.

2) J.F.DASTUR:

• First Indian plant pathologist who was credited for his detailed studies on fungi and plant diseases.
• He studied the characters of Phytophthora and Phytophthora diseases of potato
• and castor.
• He established Phytophthora parasitica from castor.

3) K.C. MEHTA – Life cycle of cereal rusts in India

4) T.S. SADASIVAN

• Started the studies on bio-chemistry of host-parasite relationship at University of Madras
• Contributed to the concept of vivotoxins
• Studied on mechanism of wilting in cotton by Fusarium vasinfectum. The production of fusaric acid by this fungus outside the host was demonstrated.