Archana Sharma (botanist)

Archana Sharma
Born(1932-02-16)16 February 1932
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Died14 January 2008(2008-01-14) (aged 75)
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation(s)Botanist · Cytogeneticist · Cell biologist · Cytotoxicologist
SpouseArun Kumar Sharma

Archana Sharma was a renowned Indian botanist, cytogeneticist, cell biologist, and cytotoxicologist.[1] Her widely recognized contributions include the study of speciation in vegetatively reproducing plants, induction of cell division in adult nuclei, the cause of polyteny in differentiated tissues in plants, cytotaxonomy of flowering plants, and the effect of arsenic in water.[2]

  1. ^ "Archana Sharma(1932-2008)" (PDF).
  2. ^ The Shaping of Indian Science: 1982-2003 (PDF). p. 1669.