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Prasanna K. Mohanty (1934–2013): a great photosynthetiker and a wonderful human being who touched the hearts of many

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Prasanna K. Mohanty, a great scientist, a great teacher and above all a great human being, left us more than a year ago (on March 9, 2013). He was a pioneer in the field of photosynthesis research; his contributions are many and wide-ranging. In the words of Jack Myers, he would be a “photosynthetiker” par excellence. He remained deeply engaged with research almost to the end of his life; we believe that generations of researchers still to come will benefit from his thorough and enormous work. We present here his life and some of his contributions to the field of Photosynthesis Research. The response to this tribute was overwhelming and we have included most of the tributes, which we received from all over the world. Prasanna Mohanty was a pioneer in the field of “Light Regulation of Photosynthesis”, a loving and dedicated teacher—unpretentious, idealistic, and an honest human being.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Savita (one name only), supported by Department of Biotechnology Grant (DBT grant 102/IFD/SAN/2002/2013–2014 to ST, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University), for her secretarial help. More than forty people helped us prepare this Tribute and we thank them all; and George C. Papageorgiou read, and corrected, the final version of this tribute before it was uploaded for publication. Special thanks go to those who provided photographs (too many to list). We are highly thankful to all those who provided individual Tributes. We mention here just a few: Basanti and Udaya Biswal, James Bolton & John Boyer (their texts are in the main portion of this paper), Usha Andley (who had worked with Prasanna in India), Lalit Mohan Das (brother-in-law of Prasanna), Walter Mangel (who provided his memories from days when Prasanna was a PhD student), Michael Seibert (with whom Prasanna spent a sabbatical), and Sadanand Torasia (who knew Prasanna the longest) for their contributions to this Tribute. We regret that we were unable to locate Bacon Ke with whom Prasanna had worked once. Govindjee thanks the staff of the Life Science Information Technology office for their constant help.

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  1. School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India

    Swati Tiwari

  2. School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India

    Baishnab Charan Tripathy

  3. School of Life Sciences, Devi Ahilya University, Indore, India

    Anjana Jajoo

  4. Department of Agricultural Biotechnology, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhubaneswar, 751003, Odisha, India

    Anath Bandhu Das

  5. National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan

    Norio Murata

  6. Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, Jain Hills, Jalgaon, 425001, India

    Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane

  7. Department of Plant Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Center of Biophysics &Quantitative Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

    Govindjee

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Tiwari, S., Tripathy, B.C., Jajoo, A. et al. Prasanna K. Mohanty (1934–2013): a great photosynthetiker and a wonderful human being who touched the hearts of many. Photosynth Res 122, 235–260 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-014-0033-5

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