Dr. A.K. Misra, presently Head, Division of Crop Protection, CISH, Lucknow and Ex. Project Coordinator, AICRP on Subtropical Fruits has outstandingly contributed in the field of plant pathology. Dr. Misra, was borne during 1954 at Patna, Bihar. He did his M.Sc in Botany from Bihar University, Muzaffarpur during 1975 and Ph.D in Mycology and Plant Pathology, from IARI, New Delhi in 1987. He joined ICAR during the year 1978 and has completed 35 years of glorious service at CRRI, Cuttack and CISH, Lucknow. From 1986 he is continuously engaged in the research on subtropical fruits at CISH, Lucknow and PS from last 16 years. As project coordinator he monitored research on mango, guava, litchi and grapes at 20 centers of AICRP on Subtropical fruits from 2008-2013. Earlier his area of work was fungal diseases of rice at Cuttack and on subtropical fruits at CISH, Lucknow, especially on diseases of national importance i.e mango malformation and guava wilt. His area of research was especially their molecular characterization, etiology, epidemiology, histopathology and management. He has about 500 publications to his credit as scientific papers in national and international journals, books, books chapters, bulletins, folders, abstracts and popular articles. He has published 56 books/bulletins/proceedings/annual reports to his credit. As scientific contribution, he has identified the new causal organism of wilt disease of guava and reproduced the disease in field in large scale by artificial inoculation by developing stem hole inoculation technique to reproduce wilt of guava in field. He achieved biological control of guava wilt and also identified resistant root stock for wilt disease of guava. He also identified resistant source of mango malformation i.e. cv. Ellaichi, which is used in mango breeding programme as resistant donor. He has developed forecasting model of mango powdery mildew and worked out cheaper control measure for its management. He has also identified several new diseases and worked out the management schedules. At CISH, Dr. Misra completed 5 externally funded projects as networking PI, PI and Co-PI and 8 institutional projects as PI. He is Fellow of IPS, ISMPP, ISPP, Ludhiana and of Society for Development of Subtropical Horticulture, Lucknow and Confederation of Horticulture Association of India, New Delhi. He was Zonal President (MEZ) of Indian Phytopathological Society, Vice President of Indian Society of Plant Pathologist, Ludhiana and Vice President, Society for Development of Subtropical Horticulture, Lucknow. Besides, he was Councilor of IPS, Association of Rice Research Workers, Indian Society of Plant Pathologists, Indian Society of Remote Sensing, ISMPP, Udaipur. Dr. Misra is recipient of K.C. Mehta and Manoranjan Mitra Memorial Award (2005) of IPS, IARI Senior Fellowship award for Ph.D. Programme, “Vinay Kumar Memorial Award” for best poster paper (Ist) presentation in “National Symposium on Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Management of Important Plant Diseases”, best poster (Ist) paper presentation in “National Symposium on Organic Farming in Horticulture for Sustainable Production”, recipient of Commendation Certificate (IPS) for the best poster presentation in the “National Symposium on Crop Surveillance: Disease Forecasting and Management”, IPS (MEZ) Plant Pathology Leadership award and Rajbhasha Protsahan Puraskar at CISH. Dr. Misra represented India as country representative at Vietnam in Board of Trustee Meeting. He organised several national and international symposium as convenor and organising secretary. He was editor of Udyan Rashmi and CISH News letter for eight years. He is also editor of Journal of Eco-friendly Agriculture for last 10 years. He has commercialized two technologies i. e Rapid Mass multiplication of Aspergillus niger and management of guava wilt through Aspergillus niger and to his credit gene sequencing of 8 isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. psidii, F. solani, F. chlamydosporum, F. moniliforme var. subglutinans, F. subglutinan and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides. Dr. Misra is trained in Photogrammetry, Photo interpretation and Remote Sensing, Bio-Informatics, Molecular Biological Techniques, Internet/Intranet in retrieval of Scientific Information & Database Search Techniques.