Seed Production Technology of Vegetable, Tuber and Spice Crops - Hardcover

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Pradeepkumar T. was born on 31/05/1965 at Tellicherry, Kerala. He obtained his PhD degree in Horticulture from IARI, New Delhi in 1994 and has undergone overseas training at University of Wisconsin, USA. He started service carrier as Assistant Professor and now working as Professor and Director of Planning, KAU. Dr Pradeepkumar.T has experience of more than 26 years in horticultural research, UG and PG teaching and extension as state and national level expert. He has developed 6 hybrids of different crops like water melon (Seedless types), salad cucumber (Parthenocarpic type) and ridge gourd. He has supervised 10 M.Sc. and 6 PhD students. He is the recipient of Krishi vijnan award for the best agricultural scientist instituted by Govt. of Kerala and Harbhajan Singh Award by ISVS. He has published 70 research papers, 11 books, 16 book chapters and 45 popular article. He received ISVS fellowship from, Indian Society of Vegetable Science in year 2016, IAHS fellowship from Indian Academy of Horticultural Science in the year 2019 and ISS fellowship from Indian Society for Spices in the year 2021.

Divya K. Lekshmanan is a scientist at ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Regional Station, Udhagamandalam, Tamil Nadu. Her research is mainly on breeding for potatoes resistant to biotic stress and optimizing production technologies for increasing the productivity of potato in potato based cropping system. She completed her post graduation from Kerala Agricultural University. She is one among the breeder of a newly released potato variety resistant to late blight and potato cyst nematode.