B.B. Mundkur

Balchandra Bhavanishankar Mundkur (26 June 1896 — 13 December 1952) was an Indian mycologist and plant pathologist.

He worked at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute and later as a professor of botany at the University of Poona.

He went to Iowa State University and obtained a PhD in 1930[1] after which he joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute.

[2] He published Fungi and Plant Diseases in 1949 and a monograph on the Ustilaginales of India in 1952 apart from research papers.

He was elected Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 1946.