S.No.

Year

Name of Awardees

Topic of Lecture

 1.

2009

Dr. A.K. Pandey

could not delivered

 2.

2011

Dr. Kusum Mathur

Host plant resistance for management of foliar diseases of sorghum

 3.

2012

Dr. B.N. Chakraborty

Trade-offs in plant defense against pests and pathogens and strategies for crop health management

 4.

2013

Dr. Prasun Mukherjee

Trichoderma – Genetics, Genomics and Beyond

 5.

2014

Dr. P. Chowdappa

Recent changes in the Phytophthora populations led to severe outbreaks of foliar blights and fruit rots in vegetable crops in South India

 6.

2015

Dr. S.C. Dubey

Race profiling, genetic diversity, diagnostics and management of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. ciceris causing wilt in chickpea

 7.

2016

Dr. Rakesh Pandey

Diseases of medicinal and aromatic plants:  Insights in nematode bio-management

 8.

2017

Dr. Shamarao Jahagirdar

Present Status and Future Research dimensions of soybean diseases for sustainable productivity of soybean in India

 9.

2018

Dr. Usha Chakraborty

 Insights into plant responses towards abiotic and biotic stresses and enhancing stress tolerance by the use of rhizospheric bacteria with multiple beneficial traits

10.

2019

Dr. Dilip Kumar Ghosh

The continuous challenges of citrus greening disease and its impact on global citrus industry

11.

2020

Dr. Kajal Kumar Biswas

Understanding of sleeping giant-virus in citrus and cotton: perspective to economic losses in India and a challenge to battle

12.

2021

Dr. Sudisha Jogaiah

Mycosynthesized nanoparticles mediated resistance in tomato against Phytophthora infestans and characterization of defense responsive proteins

13.

2022

Dr. P.D. Meena

Topographical dispersal of rapeseed-mustard diseases under changing climate in India

14.

2023

Dr. L.M. Suresh

Tackling Maize Lethal Necrosis (MLN) in eastern Africa through multipronged approaches

15.

2024

Dr. Nareshkumar M. Gohel

Back to Roots: Natural Farming for Better Plant and Human Health

16.

2025

Dr. A. Ishwara Bhat