R. Sridhar, is now, an Independent Researcher after 48 years of research in rice pathology including doctoral (Annamalai University, India), post-doctoral (IRRI, the Philippines) and service at the ICAR-National (Central) Rice Research Institute, India), together with 10 years of consulting in a not-for-profit, GLP-based non-clinical testing facility (IIBAT, India).
Ph.D., Annamalai University, India (1970)
M.Sc.(Ag), Annamalai University, India (1965)
B.Sc.(Ag), Annamalai University, India (196
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