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The Entomological Society of India volition organise the National Dialogue connected Insect successful Health, Agriculture and Environment astatine ICAR-NBAIR, Yelahanka Campus, Bengaluru, connected December 15 and 16 to people the commencement centenary of salient entomologist T.N. Ananthakrishnan.
The lawsuit volition spot respective sessions successful honour of the precocious scientist, including sessions connected ”You are however overmuch you eat: Caste and nutrition successful the Indian insubstantial wasp” and “Signal transduction and omics successful works defence mechanisms nether insect attack” by Raghavendra Gadagkar and Madhavan Soundararajan, respectively.
The sessions would besides beryllium held connected Indian Thysanoptera successful representation of Ananthakrishnan who wrote the publication titled Taxonomy of Indian Thysanoptera.
A peculiar variation of the Indian Journal of Entomology volition beryllium released during the lawsuit to observe 1 100 years of Ananthakrishnan.
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A autochthonal of Taracad successful Palakkad territory of Kerala, Ananthakrishnan started his teaching vocation astatine Madras Christian College. Later, helium took up a lecturer presumption astatine Loyola College, Chennai, earlier moving onto go the laminitis manager of the Entomology Research Institute. Later, helium besides served arsenic the Director of Zoological Survey of India.
A biologist who made captious contributions to Indian entomology, Ananthakrishnan is remembered for his enactment connected Thysanoptera, an cultivation and horticultural crop-damaging insect. Ananthakrishnan unveiled astir 400 caller nominal taxa of Thysanoptera and pioneered probe into insect polymorphism.
