In Memoriam Prof. Arun Kumar Sharma (1924-2017)

Padma Bhushan Professor Arun Kumar Sharma, one of the doyens of botany in general and cytogenetics and cytotaxonomy in particular, died on 6 th July 2017, Thursday at an age of 92. He made a benchmark both at national and international level. His fame reached the zenith of success through his hard work but his success kept him humble as a human. Besides his own research activities on various domains of botany, he has significantly contributed to the policy, planning and formulation of scientific and technical programmes for the growth of science in India.