Background
Audilakshmi, Suri Daughter of Bharatula Ramamoorthy and Bharatula Savitri.
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Suri Audilakshmi
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Bachelor of Science, Delhi University, India, 1971. Master of Science, Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar, India, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 1997.
Career
Senior research fellow Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 1975—1977. Scientist National Bureau Plant Genetic Resources, 1977—1980, National Research Center Sorghum, Hyderabad, India, 1980—1986, senior scientist, 1986—1998, principal scientist plant breeding, since 1998. Principal investigator plant breeding All India Coordinated Research Project, Hyderabad, since 2002.
Nodal officer dus testing in sorghum National Research Center Sorghum, 2003—2005. Principal investigator total grain quality management kharif sorghums national agricultural technical projects PIU, New Delhi, 2000—2005.
Achievements
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Achievements include development of a superior sorghum hybrid with good grain quality. Development of a superior post rainy sorghum variety. Development of a community drier for drying sorghum panicles to improve sorghum grain quality.
Development of a technology for improving grain quality of rainy sorghum. Research in genetic studies of grain mould resistance and mechanisams of resistance in sorghum worked out, utilized to develop grain mould resistance stocks. Research in genetics of grain size, shape, luster, grain hardness worked out and developed superior grain quality stocks.
Research in genetics of sweet stalk in sorghum and developed male sterile lines with high sugar content in sorghum. Research in characterizing 70 released sorghum genotypes for DUS teating traits.
Membership
Fellow: Indian Society Genetics and Plant Breeding (life).
Connections
Married Suri Purnachander Rao, May 3, 1980. Children: Suri Sriram, Suri Santoshi Nandita.
