Question

Who is the father of Indian bryology?
A) O.P iyengar
B) S Kashyap
C) E.J Butler
D) R Mishra

Answer 1

Hint: Study of different plants physiology, morphology, and genetic variation is included in botany. India is the country of varieties of plants or flora, it provided many great scientists to the world.

Complete Answer:
- Bryology is a branch of biology that includes the study of ancient plants that grow in humid and moist environments. This study involves the study of bryophytes, bryophytes are one of the oldest plants on the Earth, the species like, and mosses are included in this study.
- As we can observe, a lot of changes have been noticed in the past 450 million years, the plants undergo evolution and get an enormous variety of sizes and shapes.
- The plants are classified into two orders; bryophytes and tracheophytes. The tracheophytes are the plants that have well developed vascular systems like in trees, grasses, and flowering plants around us.
- The bryophytes are the small plants that do not have vascular systems that make them similar to the plants that first grown on Earth and study of these ancient plants is considered as bryology.
- Mosses are the most abundant bryophytes but it also include liverwort and hornwort, both these plants have some similarity with mosses like in the reproduction process is also similar with mosses as they reproduce by releasing spores and develop in a damp environment.
- But they are structurally different from mosses as the liverworts have lobed shape leaves.
- Now, the father of Indian bryology is Shiv Ram Kashyap. He is a botanist in British India and was a specialist from the Himalayan region on bryophytes. He had studied about the Himalayan liverwort, sexual generation of equisetum, and flora of Tibet. He had also studied about the Indian mosses, a moss genus Kashyapia is named in his honour.

Note: R Mishra is the father of Indian ecology that means study of ecosystems. O.P Iyengar is the father of phycology that means the study of the conscious and unconscious phenomenon of our brain. E.J Butler is the father of Indian plant physiology and mycology.