(Rosalind Franklin (25 July 1920 - 16 April 1958) Yesterday was 100 th anniversary of the birth of British Chemist Rosalind Franklin, a pioneering X-ray crystallographer. Dr. Franklin’s work, particularly the picture that she took of her X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA in May 1952 became famous “Photograph 51” a critical for correctly determining structure and function of DNA. In recent years, her story has become famous as one of a woman whose scientific work was overlooked during her lifetime. The credit for 1953 discovery of DNA’s structure goes to James Watson and Francis Crick along with Franklin’s former colleague Maurice Wilkins. This discovery was recognized by the 1962 Nobel Prize four years after her tragic death from ovarian cancer (Dr. Franklin was not nominated for this award since Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously). However, she was not credited beyond a tiny footnote, and died at 37 never realizing how her dat
After FAO's successful 2016 International Year of Pulses Campaign, in 2018 the UN General Assembly decided that 10 February will mark World Pulses Day to reaffirm the contribution of pulses for sustainable agriculture and achieving the 2030 agenda for a sustainable food system and a # Zero Hunger World. This will mark as a new opportunity to heighten the public awareness of the nutritional benefits of eating pulses. Under the prevailing climate change and the serious concerns about sustainability of agricultural and food security worldwide, identification of genes for climate resilient chickpea by a global team of scientist led by Rajeev K. Varshney at International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) Hyderabad and scientists from the University of Western Australia is of great importance. The re