Biography

Raghunath Sahai Vasudeva, Indian plant pathologist and mycologist (Sahiwal, Sargodha 06 February 1905 – Delhi 04 February 1987)

Authored over 200 scientific papers

Established the true cause of root-rot cotton and evolved simple and novel measures for its control

With J. Sam Raj. A leaf curl disease of tomato. Phytopath. 38:364-9, 1948

With T.B. Lai. A mosaic disease of bottle gourd. Indian J. Agric. Sci. 13:182-91, 1943

HONORS  

Vasudevella Chona, Munjal & Bajaj 1957 (Fungi)