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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Holenarasipur Yoganarasimham Mohan Ram''' (24 September 1930 - 18 June 2018) was an Indian botanist who influenced numerous students as a professor of Botany at [[Delhi University]]. His research areas included studies in [[floral biology]], plant physiology, insectivorous plants and on the family [[Podostemaceae]]. He was a brother of [[H. Y. Sharada Prasad]] and the father of [[Indian Ocean (band)|Indian Ocean]]'s [[Rahul Ram]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Doyen of Indian botanists no more|work=The Tribune India|url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/musings/doyen-of-indian-botanists-no-more/608653.html|author=Chandrabhaal Tripathi|date=22 June 2018|accessdate=2018-06-22|archive-date=2018-06-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621233520/http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/musings/doyen-of-indian-botanists-no-more/608653.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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Mohan Ram was born in Karnataka and grew up in Mysuru where he studied at the Saradavilas High School (1943–46) and Intermediate College (1946–48), receiving his bachelor of science degree from St. Philomena's College, Mysore and a master's degree in Botany from the Balwant Rajput College, Agra in 1953.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.ijprb.com/vol%2008%20(1)/pdf%2001.pdf|title=Professor S.N.Chaturvedi and my Agra connections|author=Ram, H.Y. Mohan| journal=International Journal of Plant Reproductive Biology| volume=8| issue=1| year=2016|pages=3–6}}</ref> He then joined as a lecturer in Botany at University of Delhi and worked on seed development in the [[Acanthaceae]] under Professor [[Panchanan Maheswari]]. He subsequently worked at Cornell University as a [[Fulbright Scholar]] with [[Frederick Campion Steward|F.C. Steward]] and became a specialist in tissue culture. He also worked at the Laboratoire de Physiologie Pluricellulaire with J.P. Nitsch.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.ias.ac.in/article/fulltext/reso/014/10/1003-1017|title=Turning a New Leaf|author=Varadarajan, Sujata| journal=Resonance|volume=14|pages=1003–1017|year=2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/106/02/0305.pdf| title= A doyen of Indian botanists: H. Y. Mohan Ram Ramesh|author1= Maheshwari, Ramesh|author2=Shivanna, K.R.| author3=Doreswamy, R.| author4=Sankara Rao, K.| author5=Mathur, Gita|journal=Current Science| volume=106| issue=2| pages=305–309 | year=2014}}</ref><br />
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Professor Mohan Ram published over 240 research papers and edited four books while also guiding 32 PhD students. He helped in the establishment of the Department of Genetics and Environmental Biology at Delhi University. He was an honorary scientist of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] from 2006 and was a vice-president of [[Indian Academy of Sciences]] between 1988 and 1990. He was the chairman of the [[NCERT]] biology textbook committee from 1986 to 1988. He was awarded the JC Bose Award in 1979, the Om Prakash Bhasin Award (1986), the Sergei Nawashin Medal of the USSR (1990) and numerous other recognitions.<br />
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*[http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N78-0477 INSA biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619094427/http://insaindia.res.in/detail/N78-0477 |date=2018-06-19 }}<br />
*[http://naasindia.org/detail.php?id=292 National Academy of Agricultural Science]<br />
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