{"id":7503,"date":"2022-11-07T12:07:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T06:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7503"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:07:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:37:58","slug":"ek-janaki-ammal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ek-janaki-ammal\/","title":{"rendered":"EK Janaki Ammal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About EK Janaki Ammal:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>She was born in Thalassery in Kannur district of Kerala in 1897.<\/li>\n<li>She was a pioneering botanist and the\u00a0<strong>first Indian woman to be awarded a PhD in the botanical sciences.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Janaki Ammal is known widely for her contributions to science \u2013 in the field of genetics, cytology, evolution, and more.<\/li>\n<li>She was invited by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to reorganise the Botanical Survey of India in 1951.<\/li>\n<li>Her association with the Save the Silent Valley movement \u2013 a campaign to stop a hydroelectric project from flooding the Silent Valley forest in Palakkad district of Kerala \u2013 was well-known.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/remembering-ek-janaki-ammal-indias-first-woman-phd-botanical-sciences-8249865\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edavalath Kakkat Janaki Ammal was an Indian botanist who worked on plant breeding, cytogenetics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}