Vivekanandan Punniamoorthy

Madurai Area, India India

Retired Professor at TNAU

Manufacturing

I have started my carrier at Rice Research Station, Tirurkuppam, Tamil Nadu, India from 1974 and had an opportunity to work at major Rice research centers viz., Tamil Nadu Rice Research Institute (TNRRI) Aduthurai, Rice Research Station, Ambasamudram and associated with the release of improved and high yielding rice varieties such as TKM 9 (red rice cosmopolitan variety), ADT 41 (dwarf Basmati rice), ASD 20 (long grain rice) and TKM 11 (semi dry rice). I have handled both under graduate and post graduate courses in Plant Breeding and Genetics at Agricultural College and Research Institute (AC &RI ), Madurai and Killikulam, Tamil Nadu. I have guided 15 M.Sc., (Ag) and 4 Ph.D. sc...