Roy, Shishir Kumar (S.K. Roy)   (1928 - 2022)

Born in 1928; died on August 29, 2022 at Hyderabad, Telangana, India. He was 94 years old.

Roy graduated from Science College, Agra, Uttar Pradesh, and completed his MSc in Botany from Delhi University, Delhi with first class.

He completed his PhD in the year 1951 under the guidance of Prof. Panchanan Maheshwari, a renowned botanist and pioneer embryologist.

Roy joined the Botany Department, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi in 1951. He also served Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur from 1956-61 as a lecturer.

He was head of the Botany Department, BHU from 1986-88 and retired in 1988.

On a Commonwealth Fellowship, he worked with Prof. Irene Manton, a great cytogeneticist who pioneered the chromosome squash technique to study the cytotaxonomy of ferns, as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Leeds, London.

After returning from Leeds University London, Prof. Roy established a laboratory of cytogenetics of vascular plants at the Botany Department, BHU and guided more than 40 students for their PhD degree.

During the years 1969-70 he also visited ANU, Canberra, Australia.

He worked with Dr Mary Tindale in 1976 on the cytology of Australian ferns. On this trip he collected extensively with Bob Coveny in association with the National Herbarium of NSW.

Source: Extracted from:
https://bioone.org/journals/american-fern-journal/volume-113/issue-1/0002-8444-113.1.59/PROFESSOR-S-K-ROY/10.1640/0002-8444-113.1.59.full
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Collecting localities for 'Roy, S.K.' from AVH (2024)

Data from 582 specimens