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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1937|12|24}}
| birth_place = [[Chiplun]], [[Ratnagiri district]], [[Maharashtra]], India
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| fields = {{ublist | [[Plant physiology]] | [[Biochemistry]] | [[Molecular biology]] }}
| workplaces = {{ublist | [[Bureau of Indian Standards]] | [[University of California, Berkeley]] | [[Bhabha Atomic Research Center]] | [[National Botanical Research Institute]] }}
| alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Nagpur University]] | [[University of Alberta]] | [[Ruhr University Bochum]] }}
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| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Studies on [[Photosynthesis]]
| awards = 1981 [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]]<br>1991 Bharat Jyoti Scientist of the Year Award<br>1994 [[Indian Botanical Society|IBS]] Birbal Sahni Medal
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'''Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane''' (born 1937) is an Indian molecular biologist and plant physiologist, known for his pioneering studies on [[photosynthesis]].<ref name="Brief Profile of the Awardee">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/content/Detail.aspx?AID=31 | title=Brief Profile of the Awardee | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=28 September 2016}}</ref><ref name="YunusPathre2000">{{cite book|author1=Mohammad Yunus|author2=Uday Pathre|author3=Prasanna Mohanty|title=Probing Photosynthesis: Mechanism, Regulation & Adaptation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3n1a6Ir8RYC&pg=PA9|date=22 June 2000|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-7484-0821-4|pages=9–}}</ref> He is a former director of [[National Botanical Research Institute]]<ref name="Khanna1990">{{cite book|author=K. R. Khanna|title=Biochemical Aspects of Crop Improvement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gj7ayiS_UMkC&pg=PR1|date=19 December 1990|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=978-0-8493-5418-2|pages=1–}}</ref> and an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]], [[Indian National Science Academy]], [[National Academy of Sciences, India]], [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]] and the [[Maharashtra Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="Indian Fellow - Sane">{{cite web | url=http://insaindia.res.in/detail.php?id=N91-1081 | title=Indian Fellow - Sane | publisher=Indian National Science Academy | date=2016 | access-date=28 September 2016}}</ref> The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]], the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1981, for his contributions to biological sciences.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees">{{cite web | url=http://ssbprize.gov.in/Content/AwardeeList.aspx | title=View Bhatnagar Awardees | publisher=Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize | date=2016 | access-date=19 September 2016}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane, born on the Christmas Eve of 1937 at [[Chiplun]], in [[Ratnagiri district]] in the Indian state of [[Maharashtra]] to Vishnu Jagannath Sane and Indira, did his schooling at New English High School, Nagpur and college studies at Agriculture College of [[Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth]] from where he graduated in 1958.<ref name="Sane, Prafullachandra Vishnu FELLOW, ELECTED 1991">{{cite web | url=http://naasindia.org/fdetail.html#S009 | title=Sane, Prafullachandra Vishnu FELLOW, ELECTED 1991 | publisher=National Academy of Agricultural Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> After obtaining his master's degree in agriculture from [[Nagpur University]] in 1960, he started his career at [[Bureau of Indian Standards]] in 1961 and continued there till 1964 when he moved to the [[University of Alberta]], Edmonton for his doctoral studies to secure a PhD in 1968.<ref name="Indian Fellow - Sane" /> He stayed in the North America for three more years, working at the [[University of California, Berkeley]] as an assistant research botanist and returned to India to join the Agricultural Biochemistry Section of [[Bhabha Atomic Research Center]] (BARC) as its head in 1972 where he worked till 1984. In between, receiving an [[Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]] fellowship, he spent one year at [[Ruhr University Bochum]] during 1979–80. In 1984, he became the director of the [[National Botanical Research Institute]], Lucknow and held the post till his superannuation in 1997. Post retirement, he joined Jain Irrigation Systems Limited, [[Jalgaon]] where he is a principal adviser at their Agri-Biotech division.<ref name="Sane, Prafullachandra Vishnu FELLOW, ELECTED 1991" />

Sane is married to Suchitra Khandekar and the couple has two sons. The family lives in [[Lucknow]].<ref name="Sane, Prafullachandra Vishnu FELLOW, ELECTED 1991" />

== Legacy ==
During his stint at [[Ruhr University Bochum]], Sane worked on the modality of electron transport and transduction of energy in [[chloroplast]] membranes and discovered that the generation of pH gradient across the membranes is due to the presence of proton-translocating proteins.<ref name="GovindjeeBeatty2006">{{cite book|author1=Govindjee|author2=J.T. Beatty|author3=H. Gest, J.F. Allen|title=Discoveries in Photosynthesis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3gy4r-aBusC&pg=PA1195|date=15 July 2006|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4020-3324-7|pages=1195–}}</ref> Basing his studies on a mutant of Gateway Barley, he did an elaborate biochemical analysis of carbon assimilation and reactions of Ch1 biosynthesis. Associating with Roderic Park, he developed a new method for the isolation of PS-I and PS-II, without the use of detergents and propounded a model for distributing the two [[photosystems]] in the [[chloroplast]] [[Lamella (cell biology)|lamellae]]. Their findings were published in an article, ''Distribution of Function and Structure in Chloroplast Lamellae'',<ref name="Distribution of Function and Structure in Chloroplast Lamellae">{{cite journal | title=Distribution of Function and Structure in Chloroplast Lamellae | author=R B Park, and P V Sane | journal=Annual Review of Plant Physiology | date=June 1971 | volume=22 | pages=395–430 | doi=10.1146/annurev.pp.22.060171.002143}}</ref> which eventually became a citation classic.<ref name="Indian Fellow - Sane" />

During his days at the [[Bhabha Atomic Research Centre]], Sane led a team who discovered the involvement of charge pairs in producing the emitted light and these researches are reported to have helped in widening our knowledge about ''energy storage during electron transport''.<ref name="Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners">{{cite web | url=http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | title=Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners | publisher=Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | date=1999 | access-date=28 September 2016 | pages=35 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043957/http://www.csirhrdg.res.in/ssb.pdf | archive-date=4 March 2016 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Later, he also made pioneering studies on [[tobacco]] [[transgenic]] plants and [[sorghum]].<ref name="Indian Fellow - Sane" /> He has published his research findings as chapters in several books and in over 160 articles,<ref name="Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane on Microsoft Academic Search">{{cite web | url=http://65.54.113.26/Author/23465883/prafullachandra-vishnu-sane | title=Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane on Microsoft Academic Search | publisher=Microsoft Academic Search | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> [[ResearchGate]], an online repository of scientific papers, has listed 87 of them.<ref name="P. V. Sane on ResearchGate">{{cite web | url=https://www.researchgate.net/researcher/48778876_Prafullachandra_Vishnu_Sane | title=P. V. Sane on ResearchGate | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> It was during his tenure as the director of [[National Botanical Research Institute]], the Centre for Plant Molecular Biology was established at the institute. He is a former president and an adviser to the International Society of Environmental Botanists (ISEB), a Lucknow-based non-profit, non-governmental organisation promoting coordinated research on plants and environmental pollution<ref name="Office bearers">{{cite web | url=http://isebindia.com/iseb-office-bearers.html | title=Office bearers | publisher=International Society of Environmental Botanists | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> and served as a member of the council of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] from 1996 to 1998. He has also mentored 20 scholars in their doctoral studies.<ref name="Indian Fellow - Sane" />

== Awards and honors ==
The [[Council of Scientific and Industrial Research]] awarded Sane the [[Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize]], one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1981.<ref name="View Bhatnagar Awardees" /> The [[National Academy of Sciences, India]] elected him as their fellow in 1987,<ref name="NASI Fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.nasi.org.in/fellows.asp?RsFilter=S | title=NASI Fellows | publisher=National Academy of Sciences, India] | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> the same year as he became an elected fellow of the [[Indian Academy of Sciences]].<ref name="IAS fellows">{{cite web | url=http://www.ias.ac.in/describe/fellow/Sane,_Dr_Prafullachandra_Vishnu | title=IAS fellows | publisher=Indian Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> The year 1991 brought him the ''Bharat Jyoti Best Scientist of the Year Award'' as well as fellowships of the Indian National Science Academy and the [[National Academy of Agricultural Sciences]].<ref name="NAAS fellows">{{cite web | url=http://naasindia.org/page.php?pageid=27 | title=NAAS fellows | publisher=National Academy of Agricultural Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> Sane, who is also a fellow of the [[Maharashtra Academy of Sciences]]<ref name="MAS fellows">{{cite web | url=http://mahascience.org/files/Fellowship/files/academyMembers.htm#s | title=MAS fellows | publisher=Maharashtra Academy of Sciences | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> and a life member of the Society for Plant Physiology and Biochemistry and the Indian Photobiology Society,<ref name="Life Members">{{cite web | url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxpbmRpYW5waG90b2Jpb2xvZ3lzb2NpZXR5fGd4OjQxODRkMTcxNGI5ZWQxNWU | title=Life Members | publisher=Indian Photobiology Society | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref> received the Birbal Sahni Medal of the [[Indian Botanical Society]] in 1994.<ref name="Award Achievers">{{cite web | url=http://www.indianbotsoc.org/aa.php | title=Award Achievers | publisher=Indian Botanical Society | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}</ref>

== Selected bibliography ==
* {{cite journal | title=Distribution of Function and Structure in Chloroplast Lamellae | author=R B Park, and P V Sane | journal=Annual Review of Plant Physiology | date=June 1971 | volume=22 | pages=395–430 | doi=10.1146/annurev.pp.22.060171.002143}}
* {{cite journal | title=Photosynthesis research in India: Transition from yield physiology into molecular biology | author=Agepati S Raghavendra, Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane, Prasanna Mohanty | journal=Photosynthesis Research | date=February 2003 | volume=76 | issue=1 | pages=435–50 | doi=10.1023/A:1024934432008| pmid=16228599 | s2cid=31701565 }}
* {{cite journal | jstor=4281292| title=Changes in the Redox Potential of Primary and Secondary Electron-Accepting Quinones in Photosystem II Confer Increased Resistance to Photoinhibition in Low-Temperature-Acclimated Arabidopsis | author=Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane, Alexander G. Ivanov, Vaughan Hurry, Norman P. A. Huner and Gunnar Öquist | journal=Plant Physiology | date=August 2003 | volume=132 | issue=4 | pages=2144–2151 | doi=10.1104/pp.103.022939| pmid=12913169 | pmc=181298 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Photosystem II reaction centre quenching: mechanisms and physiological role | author=Alexander G. Ivanov, Prafullachandra V. Sane, Vaughan Hurry, Gunnar Öquist, Norman P. A. Huner | journal=Photosynthesis Research | year=2008 | volume=98 | issue=1 | pages=565–574 | doi=10.1007/s11120-008-9365-3| pmid=18821028 | bibcode=2008PhoRe..98..565I | s2cid=8970615 }}
* {{cite journal | title=Male Sterility-Inducing Mitochondrial Genomes: How Do They Differ? | author=Tomohiko Kubo, Kazuyoshi Kitazaki, Muneyuki Matsunaga, Hiroyo Kagami, Tetsuo Mikami | journal=Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences | year=2011 | volume=30 | issue=4 | pages=378–400 | doi=10.1080/07352689.2011.587727| bibcode=2011CRvPS..30..378K | hdl=2115/52681 | s2cid=53364363 | url=https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/2115/52681/1/Critical%20Reviews%20in%20Plant%20Sciences.pdf | hdl-access=free }}

== See also ==
* [[Photosynthesis]]
{{portal|India|Biology}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=https://meta.science/author/101395040_prafullachandra_vishnu_sane?page=2 | title=Prafullachandra Vishnu Sane on Meta Science | publisher=Meta Science | work=Author profile | date=2016 | access-date=29 September 2016}}

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