Kamla Kant Pandey

Who is Kamla Kant Pandey?

Kamla Kant Pandey is a notable plant geneticists in the world. He is the head of the Genetics Unit, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Zealand. In 1975 he made discovery of a revolutionary technique in plant breeding. By this technique selected genes of a flowering plant can be transferred to another plant.

He was born in December 1926 at Varanasi in India. He was the first Indian agriculture graduate to win the London Exhibition Scholarship. He joined the John Innes Institute in London to pursue research on plant genetics. After completing PhD in 1954 he settled in New Zealand. In 1966 he was elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a rare honour for any botanist. In 1970 he got the DSc of the University of London. He has also put forward a theory of vertebrate evolution in animals.