I am basically an agricultural graduate with post graduation and Ph. D. in Biotechnology obtained from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), India. Since the inception of my research in 1998 as M. Sc. (Biotechnology) student, I have been working in dissection of drought resistance at morphological, physiological and molecular level. I did part of my Ph. D. thesis research at International Rice Research Institute, The Philippines on QTL mapping of drought resistance traits in rice. Immediately after completing my Ph. D., I was employed as Assistant Professor in Biotechnology at TNAU in December, 2004 and currently working as Professor in Department of Plant Biotechnology, CPMB&B, TNAU, Coimbatore. As the contemporary plant breeding is under pressure to synthesize new crop varieties that adapt to the climate change and different abiotic stresses, I started to work in genetic improvement of rice, cotton, hot-pepper, tomato, mungbean and Moringa for increased yield with better nutritional qualities using cutting edge molecular tools.

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