Department of Studies in Biotechnology, University of Mysore, Karnataka, India.

Dr. S. Chandra is an agricultural biotechnology researcher specialized in the application of biotechnological tools in plant pathogen detection, host-pathogen interaction and plant disease management. He has 19 years of experience in research including visiting scientist at Danish Government institute for seed pathology, Denmark, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid-Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. I am having four national patents, 80 research articles in reputed National and International journals, many of my research contributions have been published in the highly cited research journals. He is having over thousand citations with 22 h-Index and 47: i10 index. He is recipient of prestigious Japan International Award for Young Agricultural Researchers 2017, and American Phytopathological Society selected for plant pathology scientist bursary award. He has trained many scientists/company personnel from Vietnam, South Korea, Bangladesh, Nepal and Tanzania in the area of seed science and Technology. He won several awards for his significant research contribution in the area of Plant/Agriculture Biotechnology.