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We present here a tribute to Satish Chandra Maheshwari (known to many as SCM, or simply Satish), one of the greatest plant biologists of our time. He was born on October 4, 1933, in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India, and passed away in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on June 12, 2019. He is survived by two of his younger sisters (Sushila Narsimhan and Saubhagya Agrawal), a large number of friends and students from around the world. He has not only been the discoverer of pollen haploids in plants but has also contributed immensely to the field of duckweed research and gene regulation. In addition, he has made discoveries in the area of phytochrome research. The scientific community will always remember him as an extremely dedicated teacher and a passionate researcher; and for his wonderful contributions in the field of Plant Biology. See Sopory and Maheshwari (2001) for a perspective on the beginnings of Plant Molecular Biology in India; and see Raghuram (2002a, b) for the growth and contributions of this field in India.
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Raghubir (Raj) Prasad, of the Forestry Department of Canada, who had worked, for his D.Phil, on Lemna minor (a member of Lemnaceae) during 1958–1961, with G.E. Blackman of Oxford, UK (see e.g., Prasad and Blackman 1965a, b), recently wrote to one of us (GG): “I remember both Satish and Nirmala as very enthusiastic, knowledgeable, dedicated and hardworking plant biologists of our time. I marvel SCM’s thorough work on the Lemnaceae.” Prasad, further, praised the two for their friendly interactions with all the Indian graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists they met abroad.
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Pareek, A., Soni, V., Sopory, S.K. et al. Satish Chandra Maheshwari (1933–2019)—a brilliant, passionate and an outstanding shining light for all of plant biology. Physiol Mol Biol Plants 26, 1087–1098 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12298-020-00794-2
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