---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saravanam Karthikeyan <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:38 PM Subject: Fwd: Harvard-MIT courses To: karthikeyan s <[email protected]>
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saravanam Karthikeyan <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:38 PM Subject: Fwd: Harvard-MIT courses To: Sandhya Deshpande <[email protected]> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saravanam Karthikeyan <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:37 PM Subject: Fwd: Harvard-MIT courses To: Bhalchandra Kanitkar <[email protected]>, Lal Babu Chaudhary < [email protected]>, kakunje bhat <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], bsipubl <[email protected]>, Jayanthi Janakiraman <[email protected]>, [email protected], "V.Sampath Kumar" <[email protected]>, DINESH ALBERTSON < [email protected]>, "Dr. Rajendra Shinde" <[email protected]>, s mohan karuppayil <[email protected]>, MURUGAN Chidambaram sivanthi <[email protected]>, Madhava chetty k < [email protected]>, LAKSHMINARASIMHAN PAKSHIRAJAN < [email protected]>, prasanna parigi < [email protected]>, prashant pusalkar <[email protected]>, "NEELIMA A.M." <[email protected]>, T S Nayar <[email protected]>, Duvuru Narasimhan <[email protected]>, [email protected], chandra sekar <[email protected]>, Tapas Chakrabarty <[email protected]>, [email protected], gajanan zore <[email protected]>, Sudarsanam Gudivada <[email protected]>, karthikeyan s <[email protected] > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Saravanam Karthikeyan <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 8:26 PM Subject: Re: Harvard-MIT courses To: "Gandhi, Kanchi" <[email protected]> Superb. All botanists should view this. But alas, none of us have the power that Hitler had. So we cannot rant about name changes and we have to accept them as a necessary evil. Karthik On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Gandhi, Kanchi <[email protected]>wrote: > Last year I sent a message stating that Harvard-MIT offers many courses > (Arts, Science, etc.) freely on the web site. > > Please, spread this news to your students and colleagues. Even for > faculty, this may be a refresher. > > https://www.edx.org/course-list/allschools/allsubjects/allcourses > > ========= > In plant taxonomy, names of plants often change, and any name change > aggravates some people. > > In my talks, I often give the name change for Tomato: > > 1) Lycopersicon esculentum (Miller, 1768): this name was used until 1970 > or so. > > 2) Lycopersicon lycopersicum ((Linnaeus) H. Karston; priority from > 1753); this name was used during 1970s. > Basionym: Solanum lycopersicum Linnaeus (1753) > > 3) Lycopersicon esculentum: this name was revived by the Committee and > used 1980s. > > 4) 1990s: Molecular taxonomy indicated that there is NO hard difference > between the genera Lycopersicon and Solanum, and the accepted name is > Solanum. > > Now students in Europe and America know Tomato by the name: Solanum > lycopersicum. > > For a senior person (e.g., myself), such name changes may not be > exciting. And students (1768-1990s) learnt different names at different > times for Tomato. > > Here is a hilarious video about "plant name changes" (subtitles > superimposed) in a Hitler's movie episode. The German talks are nothing to > do with taxonomy, but the cleverly superimposed subtitles tease taxonomists. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPqJkG2XhQ8 > > ====================== > Here is a free publicity to the Kolkata plant nomenclature workshop > published in an American journal. > > URL: http://brit.org/webfm_send/378 > > *KNG* > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
