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Dr. Srinivasa Rao Mentreddy,, an Indian-born American citizen, is a Professor of crop science at Alabama A&M University, Alabama, USA. Dr. Mentreddy earned a BS in Agricultural Science, an MS in Agronomy from the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, India, and a Ph.D. in Agronomy from the University of Tasmania, Australia. As an agronomist by training and specializing in crop physiology, his research focuses on developing cover crop-based sustainable crop management practices for field, vegetable, and medicinal herbs in the open field and agroforestry systems; evaluating low-temperature plasma for ensuring food safety and improving crop productivity; and climate-smart agricultural practices using cover crops and alley cropping.
He has several years of research experience in variety evaluation using crop growth, radiation use efficiency, and competitive abilities for a wide range of field crops. Dr. Mentreddy introduced pigeon pea, mungbean, turmeric, Virginia mountain mint, and medicinal basil, which have known antidiabetic properties for cultivation in Alabama. Dr. Mentreddy has more than 15 years of research experience evaluating turmeric, mountain mint, canola, food-grade soybean – tofu, vegetable, natto type, transgenic corn, sweet potato, cassava, and Irish potato. He teaches several crop science courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and advises Ph.d. and MS students in their thesis/dissertation research across disciplines.
His international honors include serving as a specialist in assessing the status of agriculture in Agona Duankwa district in Ghana, lecture tour of six universities in China by invitation from the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, serving as a technical expert on a USAID-funded project in Uganda for three weeks educating and training farmers and extension service professionals in sustainable agriculture; and climate-smart cultivation practices for turmeric in Nepal. Dr. Mentreddy is widely published with 148 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 200 conference abstracts and serves as an editor or reviewer in many international journals.