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JAYARAMAN
Research Scholars, Students, Teachers, Scientists and others from different disciplines of
Plant Sciences across the country visit his laboratory for identification, authentication,
consultation, and guidance, anatomical description of plant organs and also to seek his expert
opinion before proceeding to any research in plant anatomy/medicinal plants. People also
visit PARC for referring rare and valuable books, Ph.D. theses, Dissertations, journals etc. In
fact, PARC is a reference centre for the Herbal Scientists and Plant Anatomists. He has a
repository of more than 500 voucher slides in PARC.
He has attained 75 years in December 2010. He devoted two third of his life span, about 45
years to study different plant groups anatomically and gained a wealth of knowledge in
Plant Anatomy as well as in Medicinal Plants. I can proudly say that in India, no one has
studied the plants anatomically, the way he has studied. He is a ‘Living Encyclopedia of
Plant Anatomy’. There is a famous biblical sayings/wordings that ‘Man looks at the
external appearance, but God looks at the heart’. Yes, he looks at the ‘heart, mind and
soul of plants’, that is, the vasculatures (vascular structures), which enables us to
differentiate one species from the other anatomically.
- A.B.D. Selvam