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sahayaraj

St Xavier's College Department of Zoology, University of Madras, St. Xavier's College, St. Xavier'S College

ORCID iD 0000-0002-0127-8632
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Dr. Kitherian Sahayaraj is Associate Professor and Director of Crop Protection Research Centre, St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Palaymkottai affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli. Dr. Sahayaraj earned his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Zoology (1985, 1987) and M.Phil. and Ph.D. also in Zoology with a specialization in Agriculture Entomology (1988, 1992) from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India and a PGDCA from the same University in 2001. He also earned a PG Diploma in Plant Protection (PGDPP) (2007) from the Annamalai University, India. He stood fifth in rank in the M.Sc. examination of Madurai Kamaraj University in 1987. He has been teaching Zoology including Entomology to undergraduate and post-graduate students for more than 20 years. He is a recognized Fellow of six national societies/academic bodies. Dr. Sahayaraj has published four books and one proceeding on Ecofriendly Insect Pest Management. He has more than 173 publications to his credit, including original research papers, book chapters, and popular articles in insect ecology, behavior, biology and physiology, as well as numerous papers on biological control efficacy of reduviids, botanicals and fungal pathogens. He has been honored with several awards from regional (Best Researcher in Science, St. Xavier’s College), national (Scientists of the year –2008, NESA, New Delhi; Young Achievers Award-2010 by SADHNA, Solan) and international agencies (Hyoshi Environmentalist Award, Japan; YOUNG IOBC travel grant awardee). Over the past 23 years, Dr. Sahayaraj’s research efforts have been dedicated to multidisciplinary, integrated approaches to understanding how reduviids distribute and diversify in various ecosystems, and how their adaptive characters can be applied to pest management, especially through biointensive pest management. He has operated ten research projects funded by national (DST, DBT, CSIR, MOEs, MEFs) and international (IFS) funding agencies. He has also received grants on several occasions for conducting farmers’ and students’ training programmes and international conference on Biopesticides from CSIR, DST, TNSCST, TWAS, MES, ICMR, ICAR and UGC. He has guided more than 17 Ph.D. scholars and supervising 2 researchers. He has been regularly transferring the laboratory finding to the neighborhood farmers and offering guidance to them on Biointensive Integrated Pest Management. For a better understanding and pursuance by farmers, he brought out 05 manuals/books in Tamil. Of late, he is busily engaged publishing an international journal, namely Journal of Biopesticides (ISSN 0976-0341X).

Employment

  • St Xavier's College Department of Zoology Professor (Associate)
    1998 - Present

Education

  • University of Madras D.Sc.
    2010 - 2017
  • St. Xavier's College Ph.D.
    1988 - 1991
  • St. Xavier'S College M.Phil.
    1987 - 1988
  • St. Xavier's College M.Sc.
    1985 - 1987
  • Vivekananda College B.Sc.
    1982 - 1985

Projects & Funding

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Publications (111)