Partha Banerjee, American biologist. Achievements include discovery of protocols to grow in vitro tissue cultures and to germinate spores of a wood-decaying mushroom Pluteus; description of four taxa of the genus Pluteus. Research grantee New York Botan. Garden, Field Museum, Sigma Xi. President Bengali Cultural Association, Albany, since 1995. Member Mycological Society of America, Smithsonian Institute.