Man Mohan Johri
Plant Science
Indian National Science Academy
India
Biography
Man Mohan Johri received education in Plant Sciences (Botany) at Delhi University and earned BSc (Hons) and MSc degrees, respectively, in 1959 and 1961. He did his PhD (1965) under Professor SC Maheshwari and had investigated the Physiology and Biochemistry of seed development in plants. He was a Research Associate (1965-68) with Professor Joseph E Varner at the famous Plant Research Laboratory at East Lansing, Mich, USA and demonstrated the role of the plant hormone gibberellic acid in the control of transcription. Later he joined the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Mumbai where he developed a group on the Developmental Biology of Plants and continued until retirement. He was awarded Visiting Professorships at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Mis, USA (1979) and at the University of Heidelberg (1987).
Research Interest
Molecular Biology of Plants
