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Venkatrao K. Badami
Venkata Rao Krishnaji Badami (12 January 1888 – c. 1950) was an Indian agronomist and a pioneer of plant breeding. Working in the Mysore Department of Agriculture, he was among the first to produce groundnut hybrids and to make use of X-ray induced mutations in the search for useful variations for breeding sugarcane varieties in 1933. Biography Badami was born in Mysore, the third and youngest son of Badami Krishna Rao (1851-1937; son of ''Rao Bahadur'' Lakshman Rao, he translated ''Robinson Crusoe'' into Kannada). An older brother, B.K. Badami, became a veterinarian in Hyderabad. Venkatrao studied at Bangalore and Mysore before going to the College of Agriculture at Coimbatore in 1909. He joined the Mysore Agriculture Department in July 1913 under Leslie C. Coleman as a junior assistant botanist, and later served as the assistant principal of the Hebbal agricultural school. He was deputed for doctoral studies in Cambridge under Sir Rowland Biffen. His PhD thesis in 1929 was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V K Badami 1928
V, or v, is the twenty-second Letter (alphabet), letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''vee'' (pronounced ), plural ''vees''. Name * (); in dialects that lack contrast between and , the letter is called , "low B/V". * * * * or *Japanese language, Japanese: is called a variety of names originating in English, most commonly or , but less nativized variants, violating to an extent the phonotactics of Japanese, of ー , or , and are also used. The phoneme in Japanese is used properly only in loanwords, where the preference for either or depends on many factors; in general, words that are perceived to be in common use tend toward . * * * is recommended, but is traditional. If is referred to as the latter, it would have the same pronunciation as the letter in Spanish (i.e. after pause ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
