Dr. D Joseph Bagyaraj

- NASI Hon. Scientist

Chairman, CNBRCD

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Dr. Bagyaraj is a renowned agricultural microbiologist. He has been an Expert Committee Member of several funding agencies like ICAR, DST, DBT, etc. and AICAR (Australia), IFS (Sweden), UNEP, FAO. He has received several national awards and honours. He has been invited to deliver lectures/ evaluate projects on mycorrhiza in several countries. Recently Asian Mycological Congress held at Japan conferred the "Distinguished Asian Mycologist Award 2019” to him. He is a Fellow of most of the National Academies in the country like INSA, NASI, NAAS, NABS, etc. He is the only scientist from India invited by European Commission to contribute on mycorrhizal fungi for the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas which was released in 2016 at Belgium. Honouring his contributions a mycorrhizal fungus has been named as Glomus bagyarajii.