Vallabhaneni Satyanarayana RaoVallabhaneni Satyanarayana Rao born on 15th June1959 in Gudlavalleru, a prosperous village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. He obtained his B.Sc., Degree in Agriculture in 1980, M.Sc in Agricultural Botany in 1982 from Gorakhpur University, Uttr Pradesh and he took his Ph.D from Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh in the year 2005. At present he is working at the second oldest Agricultural Colleges of South India for the past one decade as Professor in the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Bapatla. He had a very wide range of experience in teaching farmers and state agricultural extension officials on one hand as Assistant Oil Seeds Specialist, Farm manager, Assistant Research Officer, Rice and in-charge Pulses programme from 1985 to 1999 at RARS, Jagtial. Between 2000-2005 he worked as Senior Scientist in Seed Technology Project, and Senior Scientist Plant Breeding AICRP on Forage Crops at Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. He has joined Agricultural College, Bapatla as Associate Professor and Taught Principles of Plant Breeding and Principles of Seed Technology to graduate students from 2006 to 2013. He is a life member Indian Society Oil seeds Research, Indian Society of Forage Research, Indian Society of Agroforestry, Andhra Agricultural Journal, Indian Society of Millets Research. Prior to this between 2013 and 2015 he has worked for a while as principal Scientist Plant Breeding in AICRP on Agro-forestry. At present he is working as Professor and Head, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding from 2015 and he has guided four Ph.D students and 8 M.Sc. (Ag.) students Chairman and also a member of Advisory Committee of Several P.G and Ph.D students. His major areas of interest are in Crop Physiology especially the stress physiology and crop improvement in crops like groundnut, sorghum, ragi and rice. The author has fifty research papers to his credit besides three UG laboratory practical manuals Read More Read Less