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词条 Syed Hedayetullah
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  1. Biography

  2. Research

  3. Death

  4. Notable publications

  5. References

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}}Syed Hedayetullah (1904 – 29 August 1973) is considered a main architect of agriculture in Bangladesh, was a founding fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences,[1] founder principal of Agriculture College, Dhaka (1944–49),[1] and Director of Agriculture, Government of East Pakistan (1949–56)[2] and member of the founding committee of the Botanical Society of Bengal (1935).[3] He is credited with establishing modern Bangladeshi agriculture and food self-sufficiency, having developed 60 superior strains of rice.[4]

Hedayetullah took great interest in religious and social work as well. He was instrumental in the reconstruction of the Amber Shah Mosque at Karwanbazar, Dhaka, development of which has subsequently been taken up by the Bangladesh Government.[5]

Biography

Hedayetullah was born in the Bogra District, Bengal Presidency, British India (now Bangladesh) in 1904. He passed the entrance examination from Maldah Zilla School (now in West Bengal, India) in 1920. He studied at the Presidency College, Calcutta, as a resident of Baker Hostel and secured BSc (Honors) degree in 1926 and MSc degree in 1928 from the Calcutta University in botany. He was offered a state scholarship from the Government of India to study at King's College London from 1929 to 1932. He conducted studies on the cytology and cytogenetics of the Narcissus species and received his PhD degree from University of London in 1932.[6]

He joined Science College, Calcutta, as a senior lecturer in botany in 1933, but left to join the position of Economic Botanist, Government of Bengal in 1935. In 1945 he succeeded G. W. Podwick as the principal of Dhaka Agricultural College (now Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University). In 1949, he was appointed Director of Agriculture, Government of East Pakistan(Bangladesh). He was a liaison officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Pakistan from 1956 to 1958. After he retired from government service in 1958 he was appointed head of research division at the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Laboratories (now called Science laboratory) Dhaka and continued in that position until 1964. From 1964 to 1968, he was a scientific advisor to the Pakistan Jute Mills Association.[5]

Hedayetullah was also the dean, Faculty of Agriculture of Dhaka University. He was a master's degree supervisor of Kazi Badruddoza, a pioneer of the agricultural research system in Bangladesh, at Dhaka University.

Research

During his tenure as Economic Botanist to the Government of Bengal, Hedayetullah was charged with the responsibility of conducting entomological, horticultural, pathological and statistical studies of crops at the Central Agricultural Research Station, Monipur, Dhaka. During this time he consolidated rice research in the Presidency of Bengal into an integrated program. Outstanding local and aus rice varieties that were developed are: dharial, galsura, baish-beesh, dular, pasur, doudir, maliabhanger, Naigershail, and other gene source material brought from Nigeria etc. Dahrial is still one of the leading rice varieties of Bangladesh with a short production cycle of 110 days. Gabura and baish-beesh became the outstanding deep water varieties of the Meghna and Dhaleswari flood plains. They are low input varieties, and under his leadership, matching production technology was also developed for the optimisation of production.[5]

While he was in charge of the science laboratory in Dhaka, he realised that the British Government had almost exhausted and taken away all germplasms of some medicinal plants, particularly Rauwolfia species which is used for remission of hypertension. He pioneered the collection of available species of the genus Rauwolfia globally, a majority of them from Africa, namely R.caffra and R.mombasiana (Rauwolfia serpentina is locally known as "Sorpogandha"). The majority of his germplasm of Rauwolfia had been transferred to the Botanical garden of Bangladesh Agricultural University Mymensingh by M. Azhar Hossain who did his master's degree thesis on these species under the late Professor Asraful Haque (citation needed). Hedayetullah and C.D. Darlington of Great Britain were both students of Ruggle Gates.[5]

Hedayetullah was also involved in the development of transplanted aman varieties of rice. Among thems developed, dudshal is popular in Rajshahi Division for characteristic drought tolerance and nigarshail, a fine grain variety, has remained the outstanding local variety of transplanted aman of Dhaka and Chittagong Divisions. Due to its photosensitivity, nigarshail planted in September can provide a good yield. It is thus suitable for flood affected areas of Bangladesh. In recognition of his research and contribution in improving rice crops, the British Government bestowed upon Hedayetullah the title of "Khan Bahadur".[5]

He also made contributions in horticulture plants. Hedayetullah was also very active in many government bodies, scientific societies and associations. He was a Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences and the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences.[1] For his contribution in agriculture, Hedayetullah was awarded "Sitara-e-Imtiaz" by President Ayub Khan of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.[5]

He became the fellow of FLS and FRMS societies of England. Many of his cytological preparations were included in several text books written by the then cytologists around the world.[5] His masterpiece of cytological and cytogenetical works on Narcissus species were published in the journal of the Royal Microscopical Society of Great Britain in the early nineteen thirties.[7]

Death

Hedayetullah died in Dhaka on 29 August 1973. He was survived by his two daughters.[5]

Notable publications

  • {{Cite journal |last=Hedayetullah |first=S. |date=December 1931 |title=On the Structure and Division of the Somatic Chromosomes in Narcissus. |journal=Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society |volume=51|issue=4 |pages=347–386 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2818.1931.tb01845.x |issn=1365-2818}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Hedayetullah |first=S. |author-mask=2 |date=May 1933 |title=Meiosis in Oenothera missouriensis |journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences |volume=113 |issue=780 |pages=57–72 |doi=10.1098/rspb.1933.0030 |issn=0962-8452}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Hedayetulla h|first=S. |author-mask=2 |date=October 1932 |title=The genetics and cytology of Oenothera rubricalyx ×O. eriensis |journal=Journal of Genetics |volume=26 |issue=2 |pages=179–197 |doi=10.1007/BF02984688 |issn=0022-1333}}
  • {{Cite journal |last=Hedayetullah |first=S. |last2=Chakravorty |first2=A. K. |author-mask=2 |date=September 1948 |title=Anatomical Variation in Rice Oryza Sativa Linn. |journal=Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society |volume=67 |issue=1–4 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2818.1947.tb00944.x |issn=1365-2818}}

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.bas.org.bd/fellowship/list-of-fellows-/userprofile/hedaytullah.html|title=Bangladesh Academy of Sciences|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104280471|title=EXPERT FROM JAPAN ON GEOLOGICAL EXCORSION – The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995) – 4 Dec 1963|website=Trove|access-date=9 May 2016}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://botansocbengal.org/history_organisingcommitee.html|title=Botanical Society of Bengal|last=|first=|date=|website=Ideas for formation of Organising Committee – Botanical Society of Bengal|publisher=|access-date=}}
4. ^{{Cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131741055|title=Rice Gift From Pakistan Expert – The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 – 1995) – 25 Jan 1964|pages=9|newspaper=Canberra Times (Act : 1926 - 1995)|access-date=9 May 2016|date=1964-01-25}}
5. ^{{Cite news|url=|title=Obituary: Dr. Syed Hedayetullah|last=|first=|date=9 September 1973|work=|publisher=|newspaper=The Daily East|access-date=|via=}}
6. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRIxAQAAMAAJ|title=The Calcutta review|last=English|first=University of Calcutta Dept of|date=1 January 1936|publisher=University of Calcutta|language=en}}
7. ^{{Cite journal|last=Hedayetullah|first=Syed|date=1 December 1931|title=Xvi.—On the Structure and Division of the Somatic Chromosomes in Narcissus.*|journal=Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society|language=en|volume=51|issue=4|pages=347–386|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2818.1931.tb01845.x|issn=1365-2818}}
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