Dr. M. Kavino, has graduated from the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. He obtained his post graduate and doctoral degree from the same University. He has experience in teaching, research and extension works in fruit crops for over 15 years. He has been awarded with Senior Research Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. degree programme. He has honoured with Best Dissertation Award for Ph.D. thesis from AIPUB, New Delhi and NRC Banana, Trichy and Dr. Madhava Rao award for the best M.Sc thesis in Pomology. He received international travel grants from DST, DBT, CSIR and Kirk House Trust, England to present his research contributions in Banana at South Africa and Thailand. He is working in the field of “Crop improvement and crop management of Tropical, Sub Tropical and Arid Zone Fruit Cropsâ€. He has good experience in the field of Induced Systemic Resistance (ISR) and it is evident from his publications. He is already guided nine M.Sc.(Hort.) students and guiding one M.Sc.(Hort.) student at present in Fruit Science. He has more than 101 publications in peer reviewed international and national journals. He was the recipient of GOI, DST- Young Scientist award with scheme entitled on “Enhancement of resistance to Panama wilt (Fusaium oxysporum f.sp.cubense) of banana mediated through co-culturing of banana plantlets with PGPR and Endophytes†and Co-principal Investigators for Bioversity International, Italy and Royal Society, United Kingdom projects during 2017-2021.
Horticulture- Fruit Crops