Honoring Dinesh Chandra Uprety (1945-2023): A Great Teacher, An Outstanding Scientist, and A Wonderful Human Being

By : Sudhir K. Guru, Pallavi Saxena, Leena Borah, Vijay Paul, Rakesh Pandey, Govindjee Govindjee

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Abstract
We honor here Dinesh Chandra Uprety (1945-2023), one of the most remarkable plant scientists of India, who devoted most of his life in solving the question of how best to tune the crop plants so that they can serve the growing human population in this world. We have provided here a glimpse of his personal life as well as his remarkable scientific contributions. Also, we provide here reminiscences by a few who had the privilege of knowing him closely. We miss Dinesh Uprety not only for his highly important research for the benefit of us all- but for his friendship to us all. He was a wonderful friend to us, extremely polite and gem of a human being. He was scientist par excellence.

Authors :
Sudhir K. Guru : Department of Plant Physiology, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, India.
Pallavi Saxena : Department of Environmental Sciences, Hindu College, University of Delhi, India
Leena Borah : Department of Environmental Biology and Wildlife Sciences, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Vijay Paul and Rakesh Pandey : Department of Environmental Biology and Wildlife Sciences, Cotton University, Guwahati, Assam, India.
Govindjee Govindjee : Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry, and Center of Biophysics & Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA.
 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32381/JPSR.2023.39.02.1