Dr.P.Narayan Reddy did his PhD from jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural university, Jabalpur specializing in plant pathology. Worked for 32 years as a Professor at Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture university in various capacities in teaching and research fields and Worked for 3 years in IIIT Hyderabad in e-sagu project. Dr .Reddy was a FAO fellow and received training at Washington state university, also received training on Pest Risk Analysis at USDA under indo US AKI project. He has published more than 100 research publications, text book chapters and plant protection bulletins. Guided a number of PhD students. Acted as a member for reviewing research programmes of several Agricultural universities and ICAR institutions.
Research Interests
Plant Disease Resistance
Biological Control
Plant health diagnosis
Teaching Interests
Selected Publications
Kiran Babu T,. Thakur R.P , Upadhyaya H.D , Narayan Reddy P, Sharma R , Girish AG and Sarma NDRK (2013). Resistance to blast (Magnaporthe grisea) in a mini core collection of finger millet. European Journal of Plant Pathology,135: 299-311.
T Kiranbabu T, Sharma R, Upadhya H.D, Reddy P N, Deshpande SP,Senthilvel S, Sarma NDRK and Thakur RP. 2013 Evaluation of genetic diversity in Magnaporthe grisea population adapted to finger millet using simple sequence repeats (SSRS) markers. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology. 84: 10-18.
P. Narayan Reddy, B.K. M Lakshmi and R.D. Prasad (2012). Mitigating post harvest losses caused by anthracnose disease in mango by using bio agents, botanicals & ISR chemical. Acta Horticulture 17.
