Janaki Ammal
Ammal worked at the Sugar Cane Breeding Institute.  Ammal helped the institute to create and support sweeter sugar cane.  This was significant because they no longer had to rely on imports from other countries.  Ammal moved to Norfolk, England.  She worked at the John Innes Institute.  She and C.D. Darlington co-authored Chromosome Atlas of Cultivated Plants.  Ammal was recommended to work at the Royal Horticulture Society.  She became a paid cytologist.  She worked on a medication that doubles a plant’s chromosomes.  This makes the plant grow quicker and larger.  One shrub was named after her.  The shrub was called Mongolia Kobus Janaki Ammal.