Author: Dr. Prakash M.

Professor Dr. M. Prakash born in 1966, obtained his B. Sc (Ag.) and M. Sc (Ag.) from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India in 1988 and 1990 respectively. He did his Ph. D from Annamalai University. He was awarded with National Merit Scholarship, Government of India during 1981-1988 and ICAR Junior Fellowship during 1988-1990. His expertise in abiotic stress tolerance is well recognised by invitations to serve in the Editorial Board/Committees of several academic journals, awards and Fellowships like Crop Research Award in 2004, Best Researcher Award in Annamalai University in 2010, and Fellowship like FELLOW of Indian Society of Plant Physiology, New Delhi in 2015 (FISPP) and FELLOW of National Academy of Biological Sciences, Chennai, 2015 (FNABS). Professor Dr. M. Prakash is having around 27 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided 8 Ph.D. scholars and 22 PG Scholars. His credentials include publications of more than 100 referreed research papers, eight books published by National publishers, and one book chapter published in SESAME by globally reputed CRC Press. He organized 11 National Seminars and completed five research projects. He has earned the status of Departmental Research Support with Special Assistance Programme of University Grants Commission (UGC-SAP- DRS) to the Department with financial assistance of Rs. 50 lakhs at Phase I(2009-2014) and Rs. 1.025 Crore at phase II (2015-2020) level.