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| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|12|31|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India
| death_date = {{death date and age|2017|7|6|1924|12|31|df=yes}}<ref>{{Cite journal |title=In memorium: Professor Arun Kumar Sharma |journal = The Nucleus|volume = 60|issue = 3|last1=Lavania |first1=Umesh C. |last2=Gajra |first2=Bani |date=2017-12-01 |pages=243–245 |language=en |doi=10.1007/s13237-017-0226-3 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| residence = Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| nationality = [[Indian nationality|Indian]]
| fields = [[Cytogenetics]] [[Cytochemistry]] [[Cell biology]]
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Botanical Survey of India]] | [[University of Calcutta]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Asutosh College]] (B.Sc.) | [[Rajabazar Science College]] (M.Sc.) & (Ph.D.) | [[University of Calcutta]] | }}
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| known_for = Studies on [[Chromosomes]]
| awards = 1967 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]] 1972 [[Asiatic Society|AS]] Paul Bruhl Medal 1974 [[Indian Botanical Society|IBS]] Birbal Sahni Medal 1976 [[University Grants Commission (India)|UGC]] J. C. Bose Award 1976 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Silver Jubilee Medal 1979 FICCI Award 1983 [[Padma Bhushan]] 1993 [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] 1994 G. M. Modi Award 1998 [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] M. N. Saha Medal 1999 [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award|VASVIK Award]] 2008 Rathindra Puraskar
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'''Arun Kumar Sharma''' (1924 – 2017), popularly known as '''AKS''', was an Indian [[cytogeneticist]], [[cell biologist]], [[Cytochemistry|cytochemist]] and a former ''Sir Rashbehary Ghose Professor'' and Head of the Department of Botany at the University of Kolkata, [[Rajabazar Science College|College of Science and Technology]].<ref name="Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N70-0750 | title=Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> Considered by many as the father of Indian cytology,<ref name="Soni2010">{{cite book|author=N. K. Soni|title=Fundamentals Of Botany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkmkxB3sCPUC&pg=PT375|date=1 April 2010|publisher=Tata McGraw-Hill Education|isbn=978-1-259-08349-5|pages=375–}}</ref><ref name="List of 14 Eminent Geneticists (With their Contributions)">{{cite web | url=http://www.biologydiscussion.com/genetics/geneticists/list-of-14-eminent-geneticists-with-their-contributions/35674 | title=List of 14 Eminent Geneticists (With their Contributions) | publisher=Biology Discussion | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> he headed the ''Centre for Advanced Study on Cell and Chromosome'' at the University and is known for his contributions to the studies on the ''physical and chemical nature of [[chromosomes]]''.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=12 September 2016 | pages=36 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> A [[Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship|Jawaharlal Nehru fellow]], he is a recipient of several honors including the [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] and the [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]]. The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1967, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=4 September 2016}}</ref> The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honor of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1983.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web |url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2016 |access-date=13 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref>

== Biography ==
Arun Kumar Sharma was born on the last day of 1924 in [[Kolkata]] in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] to Charu Chandra Sharma–Shovamoyee couple but his family went into financial troubles when his father died when he was 8 years of age and he was brought up at his maternal grandparents' house.<ref name="Living Legends in Indian Science">{{cite journal | url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/107/03/0522.pdf | title=Living Legends in Indian Science | author=Umesh C. Lavania | journal=Current Science | date=August 2014 | volume=107 | issue=3}}</ref> His early schooling was at Mitra Institution after which he joined [[Asutosh College]] of the [[University of Kolkata]] in 1939. He graduated (BSc) in Botany, studying on a ''half-free scholarship''{{Refn|group=note|Where student pays only half the fees}} in 1943 and followed it up with the master's degree (MSc) from [[Rajabazar Science College]] in 1945. Later, he would also secure a Doctor of Science degree from the same university in 1955. After completing his post graduate degree, he passed the [[Union Public Service Commission]] examination for a public service career and was among the five selected for [[Botanical Survey of India]] where his assignment was the development of the [[herbarium]] and the garden of the Royal Botanical Garden, Howrah. Here, he got training in [[taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]] and worked as a temporary teacher but moved to the [[University of Kolkata]], again as a temporary teacher in 1947. He became the assistant lecturer at the University in 1948 where he spent his entire academic life, superannuating in 1990 as the head of the department and project coordinator for the ''Centre for Advanced Study on Cell and Chromosome'' of the university in 1990.<ref name="World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation">{{cite book|author=Nicholas Polunin|title=World Who Is Who and Does What in Environment and Conservation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWb7AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA294|date=5 November 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-05938-6|pages=294–}}</ref> In between, he served as a lecturer (1952), reader (1962), professor (1970), ''Sir Rashbehary Ghose Professor'' (till 1988) and as an [[Indian National Science Academy|INSA]] Golden Jubilee Research Professor (1985–90) and continued his association with the university as an honorary professor past his official retirement.<ref name="Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma" />

Sharma was married to [[Archana Sharma (botanist)|Archana Sharma]], an academic, cytologist and science writer<ref name="Indian Botanists">{{cite web | url=http://www.indianbotanists.com/2015/03/archana-sharma-indian-woman-botanist.html | title=Indian Botanists | publisher=indianbotanists.com | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="au:Sharma, Archana.">{{cite web | url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ASharma%2C+Archana.&qt=hot_author | title=au:Sharma, Archana. | publisher=WorldCat | work=Author search results | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|[[Archana Sharma (botanist)|Archana Sharma]] co-authored four books by Sharma (Please refer Bibliography section)}} and he lived in Kolkata; his wife died in 2008.<ref name="Archana Sharma(1932-2008)">{{cite web | url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_094_05_0672_0672_0.pdf | title=Archana Sharma(1932-2008) | publisher=Current Science | date=2008 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref>

== Legacy ==
Sharma pioneered researches in cytogenetics and cytochemistry in India and is credited with developing new research techniques for the study of chromosome structure of plants.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/Detail.aspx?AID=46 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=12 September 2016}}</ref> He propounded the concept of [[speciation]] in asexual organisms and the some of techniques he developed for the study of [[chromosomes]] with respect to their physical and chemical nature, such as repetitive [[DNA]] orcein banding, multiple DNA analysis and analysis of chemical nature of chromosomes, are being practiced globally.<ref name="Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma" /> He introduced a new protocol for inducing division in adult nuclei through chemical application which assisted in cell rejuvenation. He redefined [[angiosperm]] [[Taxonomy (biology)|taxonomy]], proposed new concepts of the dynamic DNA and dynamic structure and behaviour of chromosomes and suggested the use of embryo [[irradiation]] and [[in-vitro]] cultures for the generation of variability, and [[tissue culture]] as a tool for conservation of endangered species and for maintaining genetic variability. His studies proved that [[organogenesis]], differentiation and reproduction return variable chemical composition of chromosomes while maintaining the genetic skeleton. His researches have been documented by way of several books and over 500 articles;<ref name="Sharma, Arun Kumar, 1924 December 31-">{{cite web | url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82079106.html | title=Sharma, Arun Kumar, 1924 December 31- | publisher=Library of Congress | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> ''Chromosome Painting: Principles, Strategies and Scope'',<ref name="SharmaSharma2011">{{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Archana Sharma|title=Chromosome Painting: Principles, Strategies and Scope|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QPwCAAAQBAJ|date=27 June 2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-010-0330-8}}</ref> ''Chromosome Techniques: Theory and Practice'',<ref name="SharmaSharma1972">{{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Archana Sharma|title=Chromosome techniques: theory and practice|url=https://archive.org/details/chromosometechni0000shar_v7q3|url-access=registration|year=1972|publisher=Butterworths}}</ref> ''Chromosome Techniques — A Manual'',<ref name="Chromosome Techniques — A Manual">{{cite book | title=Chromosome Techniques — A Manual | publisher=Harwood Academic Publishers |author1=Arun Kumar Sharma |author2=Archana Sharma | year=1996 | pages=368 | isbn=9783718655137|oclc = 911378914}}</ref> ''Botanical Survey of India'',<ref name="SharmaDhakre1995">{{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=J. S. Dhakre|author3=Botanical Survey of India|title=Flora of Agra District|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hhi1AAAAIAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Botanical Survey of India}}</ref> ''Advances in Cell and Chromosome Research'',<ref name="Sharma1989">{{cite book|author=Arun Kumar Sharma|title=Advances in Cell and Chromosome Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TpQ_AAAAYAAJ|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Oxford & IBH Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-204-0451-9}}</ref> ''Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution'' (2 volumes),<ref name="SharmaSharma2006">{{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Archana Sharma|title=Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EGNFAQAAIAAJ|date=30 May 2006|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-413-5}}</ref><ref name="Sharma2006">{{cite book|author=A K Sharma|title=Plant Genome: Biodiversity and EvolutionVol. 2: Lower Groups|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xpWHrgEACAAJ|date=5 January 2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-57808-413-5}}</ref> and ''Cytology of Different Species of Palms and Its Bearing on the Solution of the Problems of Phylogeny and Speciation''<ref name="SharmaSarkar1956">{{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Santosh Kumar Sarkar|title=Cytology of Different Species of Palms and Its Bearing on the Solution of the Problems of Phylogeny and Speciation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NWREAAAAYAAJ|year=1956|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff}}</ref> are some of his notable works. He has also contributed chapters to reference manuals and texts such as the ''Botanical Review'' of [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]], ''International Review of Cytology'' of [[Elsevier]], ''Encyclopaedia of Microscopy and Micro-technique'' of [[Van Nostrand (publisher)|Van Nostrand]] and ''The Cell Nucleus'' and ''Tropical Botany'' of [[Academic Press]]<ref name="Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma" /> and some of his books are prescribed texts for academic study.<ref name="Animal Cytogenetics and Gene Mapping">{{cite web | url=https://advs.usu.edu/files/uploads/advs5820syllibi.pdf | title=Animal Cytogenetics and Gene Mapping | publisher=Utah State University | date=1999 | access-date=13 September 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619153206/http://advs.usu.edu/files/uploads/advs5820syllibi.pdf | archive-date=19 June 2010 | url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|''Chromosome Techniques — A Manual'' is a primary text for study at [[Utah State University]]}}

Sharma was the founder of the ''Centre for Advanced Study on Cell and Chromosome'' which was established during his tenancy as the head of the department of Botany at the University of Kolkata.<ref name="Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma" /> He chaired several national and international scientific committees such as the Indian National Committee of IUBS-INSA in 1978, [[Man and the Biosphere Programme]] Committee from 1981 to 1989, and the FASAS Commission on Science and Technology for Development in Asia in 1990 and has served as the co-chair of the Global Continuing Committee on Role of Scientific and Engineering Societies in Development in 1980), [[Birla Industrial & Technological Museum]] from 1990 to 1998, Plant and Biotechnology Committee of the [[Department of Biotechnology]], in 1997 and the Plant Science Research Committee of the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] from 1998 to 2004. He was a member of the executive committee (1982–85) and the steering committee on Biological Monitoring of the State of Environment (1983) of the [[International Union of Biological Sciences]] and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the ''International Foundation for Science'' from 1984 to 1987. He served as the founder president of the Federation of Asian Scientific Academies and Societies when the federation was formed in 1984 and has presided the Society of Cytologists and Geneticists, India (1976–78),<ref name="History — SOCG">{{cite web | url=http://socg.in/history/ | title=History — SOCG | publisher=Society of Cytologists and Geneticists | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref>{{Refn|group=note|He was the founder treasurer of the society}} Botanical Society of Bengal (1977–79), [[Indian Science Congress Association]] (1981),<ref name="List of Past General Presidents">{{cite web | url=http://sciencecongress.nic.in/html/past_general_presidents.php | title=List of Past General Presidents | publisher=Indian Science Congress Association | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605035323/http://www.sciencecongress.nic.in/html/past_general_presidents.php | archive-date=5 June 2016 }}</ref> Indian Society of Cell Biology (1979–80),<ref name="Executive Committee (1979–80)">{{cite web | url=http://www.iscb.org.in/homepage.htm | title=Executive Committee (1979–80) | publisher=Indian Society of Cell Biology | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> [[Indian Botanical Society]] (1980) and the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (1983–84).<ref name="Past Presidents">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/past_council.php | title=Past Presidents | publisher=INSA | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> He is a former chief editor of ''The Nucleus'' journal of [[Springer Science+Business Media|Springer]]<ref name="About Journal">{{cite web | url=http://www.mdppl.in/journal/nucleus-international-journal-cytology-and-allied-topicsjournal | title=About Journal | publisher=MDPPL Publications | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and has been a member of the editorial boards of such journals as ''Proceedings of the [[Indian National Science Academy]]'', the ''Journal of Cytology and Genetics'', ''Proceedings of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]]'' and the ''Indian Journal of Experimental Biology''. He has also guided 80 PhD and 10 DSc scholars in their researches.<ref name="Living Legends in Indian Science" />

== Awards and honors ==
Sharma, who was selected for the [[Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship]] for hs project on ''Chromosomes in Relations to Development and Differentiation in Higher Plants'' in 1972,<ref name="List of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.jnmf.in/flist.html | title=List of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellows | publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund | date=2016 | access-date=14 September 2016}}</ref> received the Paul Bruhl Memorial Medal by the [[Asiatic Society]] the same year.<ref name="Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma" /> The [[Indian Botanical Society]] awarded him the Birbal Sahni Medal in 1974<ref name="Award Achievers — Birbal Sahni Medal">{{cite web | url=http://www.indianbotsoc.org/aa.php | title=Award Achievers — Birbal Sahni Medal | publisher=Indian Botanical Society | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> and he received the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology|Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Biological Sciences]], one of the highest Indian science awards from the [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] in 1976.<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee" /> He received two more awards in 1976, the inaugural J. C. Bose Award of the [[University Grants Commission (India)|University Grants Commission]] and the Silver Jubilee Medal of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] (INSA), INSA would honor him again with Golden Jubilee Professorship in 1985 and Meghnad Saha Medal in 1998.<ref name="Silver Jubilee Medal and Meghnad Saha Medal">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/recipients.php#abs | title=Silver Jubilee Medal and Meghnad Saha Medal | publisher=INSA | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> The University Grants Commission selected him as a National Professor in 1977 and he received the FICCI Award of the [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry|Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry]] in 1979. The Government of India included him in the [[Indian honours system|Republic Day honors]] list for the third highest civilian honor of the [[Padma Bhushan]] in 1983.<ref name="Padma Awards" />

Sharma received the [[Om Prakash Bhasin Award]] in 1992<ref name="Om Prakash Bhasin Awards">{{cite web | url=http://www.opbfawards.com/biotechnology.html | title=Om Prakash Bhasin Awards | publisher=Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> and the [[VASVIK Industrial Research Award]] in 1999;<ref name="Vasvik Award">{{cite web | url=http://www.vasvik.org/Environmental_Sciences_&_Technology.html | title=Vasvik Award | publisher=Vasvik | date=2016 | access-date=4 January 2015}}</ref> in between he received the Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science and Technology of the International Institute of Fine Arts in 1994.<ref name="Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science & Technology">{{cite web | url=http://www.iifaindia.org/award_gmma.html | title=Gujar Mal Modi Award for Science & Technology | publisher=International Institute of Fine Arts | date=2016 | access-date=14 September 2016}}</ref> He also received the Rathindra Puraskar of [[Visva-Bharati University]] in 2008.<ref name="PM announces Rs 95-crore grant for Visva Bharati">{{cite web | url=http://www.rediff.com/money/2008/dec/06pm-announces-rs-95-crore-grant-for-visva-bharati.htm | title=PM announces Rs 95-crore grant for Visva Bharati | publisher=ReDiff | date=6 December 2008 | access-date=14 September 2016}}</ref> The [[Indian National Science Academy]] and the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] elected him as their fellow in 1970 and 1975 respectively.<ref name="Fellow Profile">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sharma,_Prof._Arun_Kumar | title=Fellow Profile | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> The World Academy of Sciences chose him as their fellow in 1988<ref name="TWAS fellows">{{cite web | url=http://twas.org/member/sharma-arun-kumar | title=TWAS fellows | publisher=The World Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}</ref> and the [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] followed suit in 2012.<ref name="NASI fellows">{{cite web|url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S |title=NASI fellows |publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India |date=2016 |access-date=13 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160316043224/http://nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S |archive-date=16 March 2016 }}</ref> He is also a recipient of the degree of Doctor of Science ([[honoris causa]]) from [[Burdwan University]].<ref name="Indian Fellow — Arun Kumar Sharma" />

== Selected bibliography ==

=== Books ===
* {{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Santosh Kumar Sarkar|title=Cytology of Different Species of Palms and Its Bearing on the Solution of the Problems of Phylogeny and Speciation|year=1956|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff}}
* {{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Archana Sharma|title=Chromosome techniques: theory and practice|url=https://archive.org/details/chromosometechni0000shar_v7q3|url-access=registration|year=1972|publisher=Butterworths}}
* {{cite book|author=Arun Kumar Sharma|title=Advances in Cell and Chromosome Research|date=1 January 1989|publisher=Oxford & IBH Publishing Company|isbn=978-81-204-0451-9}}
* {{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=J. S. Dhakre|author3=Botanical Survey of India|title=Flora of Agra District|year=1995|publisher=Botanical Survey of India}}
* {{cite book | title=Chromosome Techniques — A Manual | publisher=Harwood Academic Publishers |author1=Arun Kumar Sharma |author2=Archana Sharma | year=1996 | pages=368 | isbn=9783718655137}}
* Sharma, A. K., & Sharma, A. (1999). Plant chromosomes: Analysis, manipulation and engineering. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic.
* {{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Archana Sharma|title=Plant Genome: Biodiversity and Evolution|date=30 May 2006|publisher=Science Publishers|isbn=978-1-57808-413-5}}
* {{cite book|author=A K Sharma|title=Plant Genome: Biodiversity and EvolutionVol. 2: Lower Groups|date=5 January 2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-57808-413-5}}
* {{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Archana Sharma|title=Chromosome Painting: Principles, Strategies and Scope|date=27 June 2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-94-010-0330-8}}
* {{cite book|author1=Arun Kumar Sharma|author2=Archana Sharma|title=Chromosome Techniques: Theory and Practice|date=24 April 2014|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-1-4831-0084-5}}
* {{cite book | url=https://www.sapnaonline.com/books/encyclopaedia-of-cytology-genetics-molecular-biology-6266985 | title=Encyclopaedia Of Cytology Genetics & Molecular Biology | publisher=Anmol Publications | author=A. K. Sharma | year=2014 | pages=296 | isbn=9788126158133}}

=== Articles ===
* {{cite journal | title=Analysis of Chromosome Morphology and Possible Means of Speciation in Jasminum |author1=Arun Kumar Sharma |author2=Archana Sharm | journal=Cytologia | date=December 1957 | pages=172–185}}
* {{cite journal | title=Occurrence of B-chromosomes in diploid Allium stracheyi Baker and their elimination in polyploids | author=Arun Kumar Sharma, Hamsa Rama Aiyangar | journal=Chromosoma | date=January 1961 | volume=12 | issue=1 | pages=310–317 | doi=10.1007/BF00328926| s2cid=28843392 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Cytogenetics of Some Members of Portulacaceae and Related Families | author=Arun Kumar Sharma, Nripendra K. Bhattacharyya | journal=Caryologia -Firenze | date=January 2014 | volume=8 | issue=2 | pages=257–274 | doi=10.1080/00087114.1956.10797565| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Cytology of Asphodelus Tenuifolius Cav. | author=Arun Kumar Sharma, Nripendra K. Bhattacharyya | journal=Caryologia -Firenze | date=January 2014 | volume=8 | issue=2 | pages=330–339 | doi=10.1080/00087114.1957.10797626}}
* {{cite journal | title=A New Concept of a Means of Speciation in Plants | author=Arun Kumar Sharma | journal=Caryologia -Firenze | date=January 2014 | volume=9 | issue=1 | pages=93–130 | doi=10.1080/00087114.1956.10797584| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Cytogenetics of Some Members of Portulacaceae and Related Families | author=Arun Kumar Sharma, Nripendra K. Bhattacharyya | journal=Caryologia -Firenze | date=January 2014 | volume=8 | issue=2 | pages=257–274 | doi=10.1080/00087114.1956.10797565| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Veratrine: Its use in Cytochemistry | author=Arun Kumar Sharma, Santosh Kumar Sarkar | journal=Caryologia -Firenze | date=January 2014 | volume=8 | issue=2 | pages=240–249 | doi=10.1080/00087114.1956.10797563| doi-access=free }}
* {{cite journal | title=Artificial Polyploidy in Coriander (Coriandrum Sativum L.) | author=Arun Kumar Sharma, Praphulla Chandra Datta | journal=Caryologia -Firenze | date=January 2014 | volume=10 | issue=1 | pages=152–158 | doi=10.1080/00087114.1957.10797618}}
* {{cite journal | title=Identification and Characterization of Microsatellite from Alternaria brassicicola to Assess Cross-Species Transferability and Utility as a Diagnostic Marker |author1=Arun Kumar Sharma |author2=Ruchi Singh |author3=Sudheer Kumar |author4=Prem L. Kashyap | journal=Molecular Biotechnology | date=July 2014 | volume=56 | issue=11 |pages=1049–1059 | doi=10.1007/s12033-014-9784-7|pmid=25048820 |s2cid=207377237 }}

== See also ==
* [[Speciation]]
* [[Organogenesis]]
* [[Archana Sharma (botanist)]]
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== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://www.neetbiology.co.in/2012/12/famous-indian-scientists.html | title=Famous Indian Scientists | publisher=NEET Biology | date=2016 | access-date=13 September 2016}}

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Arun Kumar Sharma - Revision history

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