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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman[edit]

  • ... that in the 1960s, sugarcane cultivars developed in Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman 's laboratory sustained the sugar industries of 22 countries?Source: "At one stage during 1960s, the Coimbatore varieties were under commercial cultivation in 22 countries in the world and sustaining their sugar industry." Bio of T. S. Venkataraman
    • ALT1:... that Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman 's research established India as the world's second largest producer of sugar? Source: "In the next few decades, consequent to TSV's work, India turned into the second largest sugar producer in the world, after Brazil." (The knight of sugar industry: T. S. Venkataraman (1884-1963), Current Science. 4/25/2014, Vol. 106 Issue 8, p. 1146-1149.)
    • ALT2:... that Tiruvadi Sambasiva Venkataraman developed sugarcane hybrids producing nearly 35 times more sucrose than their parents? Source: "After 4-5 recurrent backcrossings of S. officinarum ? wild Sorghum spontaneum with S. officinarum as the female parent, TSV selected the 'rare' interspecies hybrid cane varieties that resembled sugarcane and had approximately 2.5 cm thick juicy stems containing 16-18% sucrose - nearly 35 times more than what occurred in parent stocks." (The knight of sugar industry: T. S. Venkataraman (1884-1963), Current Science. 4/25/2014, Vol. 106 Issue 8, p. 1146-1149.)

Created/expanded by Aumnamahashiva (talk). Self-nominated at 02:04, 17 February 2018 (UTC).

  • Article is new, long enough, no copyvio, hooks have citations, no QPQ needed as less than five DYK credits.Gfosankar (talk) 13:09, 18 February 2018 (UTC)