Faculty - TNAU

Tamil Nadu Agricultural University
Recognized Guides for M.Sc./Ph.D Programs
Department of Soil Science & Agrl. Chemistry
Sl
No.
Name and Designation Mail I.D M.Sc.
Guide
Ph.D
Guide
1. Dr. R. Natesan,
Natesan_tnau@yahoo.co.in
Professor & Haed
2. Dr. V.P. Duraisami, vpdurai@rediffmail.com
Professor
3. Dr. S. Mani, Professor smanierode@rediff.com
4. Dr. A. Vadivel, Professor Vadive114@rediffmail.com
5. Dr. P. Stalin, Professor pstmin@yahoo.co.in
6. Dr. Arulmozhiselvan, selvarul@india.com
Professor
7. Dr. P. Malarvizhi, Professor malarmahes@hotmail.com
8. Dr. R. Santhi, Professor santhitnau@yahoo.co.in
9. Dr. D. Vasanthi, Professor vasanthiaishu@yahoo.co.in
10. Dr. R. Shanmuga Sundaram vrssundaram@yahoo.com
Professor
11. Dr. Mathumanickam, muthunausac@yahoo.co
Professor
12. Dr. T. Chitdeshwari, chithukesh@gmail.com
Professor
13. Dr. T. Thilagavathy, tthilagavathi@hotmail.com
Professor
14. Dr. N. Chandrasekaran, rasincs@yahoo.co.com
Professor
15. Dr. S. Meena, Professor Menus_69@yahoo.com
16. Dr. M. Elayarajan, Elayarajan2005@yahoo.com
Asst.Professor
III. Dept. of Nano Science and Technology
17. R. Sivasamy, Professor ragis@tnau.ac.in siva_tnau@yahoo.com
18. Dr. K.S. Subramanian, Ksuubra2001@rediffmail.com
Professor
IV. Dept. of Dean (Agriculture)
19. Dr. A. Rajarajan, Professor Rajarajan70@hotmail.com
V. Directorate of Open Distance Learning
20 Dr. P. Santhy, Professor Balasanthy41@yahoo.com
21. Dr. V. V. Krishnamoorthy, Krishnamoothyavvkrishnamurthimurthi@hotma
Professor
il.com
VI. Directorate of Extension Education
22. Dr. D. Selvi, Professor selvisubhi@yahoo.com
VII. Directorate of Research

23. Dr.M. Dakshinamoorthy, mdmoorthy@gmail.com
Professor
24 Dr. K. Velayudham, velakum@gmail.com
Professor
Department of Sericulture
1. Dr.S.V.Krishnamoorthy
Professor and Head kitcha.tnau@gmail.com
2 Dr.K.Ramamoorthy
Professor (Agronomy) .kramamoorthy@yohoo.co.in
3 Dr.C.A. Mahalingam
Professor (Entomology camahalingam@yahoo.com
4 Dr.S.Manimegalai
,Professor(Entomology) megalai_siva@yahoo.com
5 Dr.S.Vanitha ,Professor
(Plant Pathology)
vanitha1969@yahoo.com
Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology
1. Dr.R.Ganesan, Professor ganesanvpr@gmail.com
2. Dr.R.Vijayaraghavan, profvijayaraghavan@gmail.com
Special Officer (P&PR)
3. Dr.K.A.Ponnusamy kapextension@gmail.com
Director of Extension
Education
4. Dr.T.Rathakrishnan extensionratha@gmail.com
Director of Students
Welfare
5. Dr.R.Vijayaraghavan profvijayaraghavan@gmail.com
Special Officer (P&PR)
6. Dr.K.A.Ponnusamy kapextension@gmail.com
Director of Extension
Education
7. Dr.P.P.Murugan
ppmurugan_2003@ yahoo.co.in
Professor
8. Dr.T.Rathakrishnan extensionratha@gmail.com
Director of Students
Welfare
9. Dr.V.Ravichandran drvrextension@gmail.com
Professor
10. Dr.M.Asokhan
masokhan@gmail.com
Professor
11. Dr.P.Muthiah Manoharan mukrvisa@yahoo.co.in
Professor and Head
Market-led Extension
12 Dr.S.Palaniswamy
Professor
drspalaniswamy@gmail.com

13. Dr.V.Ravichandran drvrextension@gmail.com
Professor
16. Dr.H.Philip
philip.tnau@ gmail.com
Professor and Head
Training Division
17. Dr.Ravi Kumar Theodore rk.theodore@gmail.com
Professor and Head
18. Dr.C.Karthikeyan
karthikeyanextn@yahoo.com
Professor
Public Relations Office Unit
19. Dr.P.Balasubramaniam balathalir_2004@yahoo.com
Professor
20. Dr.R.Rajasekaran
tnauraja@yahoo.co.in -
Professor Dept. of
Sustainable Organic
Agriculture
21. Dr.M.Shanthasheela jagsheela2000@yahoo.co.in -
Assistant Professor
22. Dr.N.Anandaraja
na75@tnau.ac.in-
Assistant Professor
Directorate of Extension
Education
23. Dr.A.JanakiRani
janakimurugan8@gmail.com -
Assistant Professor
24 Dr.S.Kalaivani
velavani@hotmail.com
Assistant Professor
25 Dr.R.Premavathi
premavathitnau@yahoo.co.in
Assistant Professor
Department of Seed Science and Technology
1. Dr.M.Bhaskaran
bhaskm@yahoo.co.in
Professor and Head
2. Dr.P.Srimathi,
srimathisrinivasan.tnau@gmail.com
Professor
3. Dr.A.Vijayakumar, jaisrivijay@gmail.com
Professor
4. Dr.N.Natarajan,
divkavnn@gmail.com
Professor
5. Dr.G.Aslam Basha, aumdaslam@gmail.com
Professor
6. Dr.K.Krishnaveni, dayakrishpkrish27@yahoo.co.in
Professor
7. Dr.P.Selvaraju,
kpselva@yahoo.com
Professor
8. Dr.R.Jerlin,
rjerlin@hotmail.com
Professor.
9. Dr.K.Malarkodi,
Asst. Professor
jujumalar2000@gmail.com

10. Dr.S.Lakshmi,
lakku_seed@yahoo.com
Asst. Professor
Department of Agricultural Entomology
1. Dr.S.Kuttalam
Professor and Head
2. Dr. M.Ganesh kumar
Professor (Entomology)
3. Dr.R.Jayakumar
Professor (SS&AC)
4. Dr.S.Mohan
Professor (Entomology)
5. Dr.T.Manoharan
Professor (Ento.)
7. Dr.N.Dhandapani,
Professor(Entomology)
8. Dr.P.Karuppuchamy
Professor (Entomology) -
9. Dr. S. Suresh
Professor (Entomology) -
Rice
10. Dr. C. Durairaj
Professor (Entomology)
11. Dr.K.Ramaraju
Professor (Entomology)
12. Dr.S.Chandrasekaran
Professor (Ento.) -
13. Dr. S.Sridharan
Professor (Ento.)
14. Dr.M. Bharathi
Professor (Ento.)
15. Dr.K.Gunasekaran
Professor and Head
16. F.John Samuvel Kennedy
Professor(Entomology)
17. Dr.M.Kalayanasundaram
Professor (Entomology)
18. Dr. G.Asokan
Professor (Entomology)
19. Dr. S.Raghuraman
Professor (Entomology)
20. Dr.S.Jeyarajan Nelson
Professor (Entomology)
21. Dr. K. Samiayyan
Professor (Entomology)
22. Dr. K.N. Raghumoorthi
Professor (Entomology)
kuttalamfish@yahoo.co.in
ganeshkumar_m@indiatimes.com
rajjeayakumar@indiatimes.com
sarmamohan@hotmail.com
trmano_1999@yahoo.com
profdhandapani@yahoo.com
karuppuchamyp@yahoo.co.in
ssuresh_60@hotmail.com
c_durairaj@yahoo.com
kunchiramaraju@yahoo.com
shubaanu@yahoo.co.uk
raji4sridharan@gmail.com
kmb_59@yahoo.co.in
guna_tnau@yahoo.com
jskennedy@gmail.com
tnaukalyan@rediffmail.com
madhu_ashok@yahoo.co.in
raghuraman99@gmail.com
Sjn652003@yahoo.co.in
samiayyan@gmail.com
knragu@sify.com

23. Dr. N.Ganapathy
ngpathy@rediffmail.com
Professor (Entomology)
24. Dr. R. Philip Sridhar philipsri@yahoo.co.in
Professor (Entomology)
25. Dr. T.Kempraj
kemrajt@yahoo.com
Professor (Ento.)
26. Dr. G. Umapathy
umapathy_tnau@yahoo.co.in
Professor (Entomology)
27. Dr. M.R.Srinivasan mrsrini@tnau.ac.in
Professor (Entomology) mrsrini@gmail.com
28. Dr. M.Suganthy
suganthyento@rediffmail.com -
Asst. Prof. (Entomology)
29. Dr.Y.Johnson Thangaraj johnte_ys@rediffmail.com
Edward
Professor(Entomology)
30. Dr.N.Natarajan
Natarajan_tnau@yahoo.com
Professor(Entomology)
Department of Agro Climate Research Center
1 Dr. N.Maragatham maragathamm@yahoo.co.in
Professor and Head
2 Dr. S.Enayathulla Shah enayathshah@gmail.com
Professor
3 Dr. V.Geethalakshmi geetha@tnau.ac.in
Professor
4 Dr. K.Sathyamoorthi sathy1959@yahoo.com
Professor
5 Dr. A.Lakshmanan microlaxman@yahoo.com
Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
1 Dr. N. Ragupathi
ragupathi_path@yahoo.com
Professor and Head
2 Dr. A. Sankaralingam sankarshari@rediffmail.com
Professor
3 Dr. S. Enayathullah Shah enayathshah_55@yahoo.com
Professor
4 Dr. D. Alice
alicetsn@yahoo.com
Professor
5 Dr. A. Eraivan
eraivan@rediffmail.com
Professor
6 Dr. A.S. Krishnamoorthy milkmushapk2@gmail.com
Professor
7 Dr. K. Prabakar
sidhukavi@yahoo.com
Professor
8 Dr. T. Raguchander raguchander@rediffmail.com
Professor
9 Dr. R. Velazhahan
Professor
velazhahan@hotmail.com

10 Dr. S. Vanitha
Professor
11 Dr. S. Nakkeeran
Professor
12 Dr. A. Kamalakannan
Professor
13 Dr. G. Karthikeyan
Professor
14 Dr. A. Ramanathan
Professor
Department of Plant Nematology
1 Dr. E. I. Jonathan,
Director (CPPS)
2 Dr.S. Ramakrishnan,
Professor
3 Dr. S. Subramanian,
Professor
4 Dr. K. Poornima,
Professor
5 Dr. K. Devrajan,
Professor
6 Dr. A. Shanthi,
Professor
Department of Biotechnology
1 Dr. P. Balasubramanian,
Professor (Biotech);
2 Dr. R. Balasaraswathi,
Professor (Biotech);
3 Dr. S. Sukumar,
Professor (Biotech);
4 Dr. V. Udayasuriyan,
Professor (Biotech);
5 Dr. R. Sridhar, Professor
(Microbiology);
6 Dr. D. Sudhakar,
Professor and Head (Plant
Pathology)
7 Dr. R. Gnanam,
Professor (Biotech)
8 Dr. S. Mohankumar,
Professor (Biotech);
9 Dr. M. Raveendran,
Professor (Biotech);
10 Dr. V. Balasubramani,
Professor (Entomology);
vanitha1969@yahoo.com
nakkeeransingai@yahoo.com
kamals2k@yahoo.co.in
agrikarthi2003@yahoo.com
nathanram@rediffmail.com
eijonathan@yahoo.com
nemarama@yahoo.com
subbunema@yahoo.co.in
poornimamurty@yahoo.co.in
kdevrajan@yahoo.co.in
shanthigovardhan@yahoo.co.in
(Biotech); balasubrap@hotmail.com
rbsara5@gmail.com
sukugaya@hotmail.com
udayvar@yahoo.com
sridar@hotmail.com
dsudhakar@hotmail.com
rgnanam2000@yahoo.com
smktnau@gmail.com
raveendrantnau@gmail.com
venkatbalasubramani@yahoo.com

11 Dr. E. Kokilardevi,
Assistant Professor (Biotech); cmkokila@yahoo.com
(Biotech);
12 Dr. K.K. Kumar,
Assistant Professor (Biotech); kumarbiotech@gmail.com
(Biotech);
13 Dr. R. Renuka,
renukaraman@yahoo.com
Assistant Professor
(Biotech);
Plant Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics
14 Dr. R. Chandrababu, chandrarc2000@yahoo.com
Director, CPMB&B;
15 Dr. P. Nagarajan, Professor
and Head, DPMB&B; DPMB&B; p_nrajan@yahoo.com
16 Dr. M. Bharathi, Professor kmb_59@yahoo.co.in
17 Dr.N. Kumaravadivel, kumaravadiveln@yahoo.com
Professor (Biotech);
18 Dr. J. Ramalingam, jrjagadish@yahoo.com
Professor (Biotech)
19 Dr. N. Senthil, Professor senthil_natesan@yahoo.com
(Biotech);
20 M. Murugan,
entomurugan@rediffmail.com
Professor (Entomology);
21 Dr. L. Arul,
arulsra@gmail.com
Assoc. Professor (Biotech);
22 Dr. N. Manikanda biotechboopathi@yahoo.com
Boopathi, Assistant
Professor (Biotech);
Department of Environmental Science
1 Dr. C. Udayasoorian, Ph.D., deanspgs@tnau.ac.in
Dean
2 Dr.Subramanian, P., Prof. & psubbu57@yahoo.co.in
Head
3 Dr Thangavel,P., Professor pthvel@yahoo.com
4 Dr Mahimairaja, S.,
Professor
5 Dr Valliappan, K., Professor
6 Dr Avudainayagam, S.,
Professor
7 Dr Maheswari, M.,
Professor
maheswarisekar2004@yahoo.com

8 Dr Balasubramaniam,G.
Professor (SPGS)
9 Dr Sara parwin Banu.K.,
Professor
Department of Microbiology
Dr. S. Gunasekaran
Professor and head,
1.
Dr. R. Murugesan,
2. Professor& Director
Dr. K. Kumar,
3. Professor
Dr. K. Vijila,
4. Professor
P. Marimuthu
5. Professor
K. Ilamurugu,
6. Professor
Dr. Gopalswamy
7. Professor
Dr. K. Kumutha
8. Professor
Dr. U. Sivakumar
9. Professor
Dr. D. Balachandar
10. Professor
Dr. T. Kalaichelvi
11. Professor
Dr. S. Karthikeyan
12. professor ( Bioenergy)
Dr. G. Prasad
13. Professor
Dr. Z. Johnkennady
14 Professor
Dr. M. Senthilkumar
15. Assistant Professor
Agricultural Engineering
Department of Bioenergy
1 Dr. S.Kamaraj
Professor and Head
2 Dr. M.Singaravelu
Professor
3 Dr. S.Pugalendhi
Professor
agribalu@hotmail.com
parwink@gmail.com
gunal1954@yahoo.com
microbiomurugesh@yahoo.co.in
azollakumar@rediffmail.com
vijiladauphin@yahoo.com
profmarimuthu1@yahoo.com
ilamuruguk@gmail.com
ggswamy@gmail.com
kkumuthatnau@yahoo.com
usivakumartnau@gmail.com
dbalu2000@yahoo.com
drtkalaiselvi vmm@yahoo.co.in
skarthy@tnau.ac.in
prasadg@tnau.ac.in
johnkenz@gmail.com
senhilkumarmicro@yahoo.co.in
kamarajs@hotmail.com
msingaravelu_55@yahoo.co.in
spugals@gmail.com

Horticultural College & Research Institute
Department of Floriculture
1 Dr.M.Jawarharlal
Professor and Head
sjawarhalarflori@yahool.com
2 Dr.M.Kannan, Professor kannanflori@gmail.com
Department of Vegetables
1 Dr.P.Jansirani
Professor and Head
2 Dr.P.Irene Vethamoni,
Professor
vegetable@tnau.ac.in
irenevetha17i@gmail.com
3 Dr.T.Saraswathi, Professor saraswathi.thiruvenkatasamy@gmail.com
4 Dr.V.A.Sathiyamoorthy,
Professor
sathiyamoorthyva@yahoo.co.in
Dept. of Spices, Plantation, Medicinal and Aromatic Crops
1. Dr.R.M.Vijayakumar
Professor and Head
med@tnau.ac.in
2. Dr.J.Suresh
med@tnau.ac.in
Professor
Agricultural College and Research Institute, Madurai
Agricultural Economics
1 Dr. P. Parthipan balaparthipan2000@yahoo.co.in
Professor and Head,
2 Dr. David Rajasekar David250760@rediffmail.com
Professor
3 Dr. R. Rajesh prof.rrajesj@gmail.com
Professor
4 Dr. J. S. Amarnath dramar_econ@rediffmail.com
Professor

5 Dr. N. Muthukrishnan
Professor and Head,
6 Dr. S. Manisegaran
Professor
7 Dr. R. K. Murali Baskaran
Professor
8 Dr. C. Chinniah
Professor
9 Dr. C. Muthiah
Professor
10 Dr. R. Nalini
Professor
11. Dr. W. Baby Rani
Professor
nmuthu64@yahoo.com
dr.profsmanisegaran@gmail.com
Rckm2013@gmail.com
profchinniahentogmail.com
Muthiah2007@yahoo.co.in
naliniento@yahoo.co.in
babyranirus@yahoo.com
Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry
12 Dr. K. Baskar
Professor and Head
kbaskartnau@gmail.com
13 Dr. S. Thiyageswari
Professor
14 Dr. B. Bakiyathu Saliha
Asst. Professor
15 Dr. J. Kannan
Professor
thiyageswari@gmail.com
bhakiyathus@yahoo.co.in
kannantnau@gmail.com
Department of Agricultural Extension, AC&RI, Madurai
16 Dr.V.Sekar,Ph.D.,
Professor and Head
17 Dr.S.Somasundaram,Ph.D.,
Professor (Agrl.Extension)
18 Dr.J.Pushpa,Ph.D.,
Professor (Agrl.Extension)
sekarextension@gmail.com
pssomu@hotmail.com
drpushpamanisegaran@gmail.com
19 Dr.R.Velusamy,,Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
veluanbu_2004@yahoo.co.in

(Agrl.Extension )
Department of Plant Pathology, AC&RI, Madurai
20 Dr.M.Muthamilan,Ph.D.,
Professor and Head
21 Dr.S.Mohan,Ph.D.,
Professor
22 Dr.R.Vimala,Ph.D.,
Professor
23 Dr.I.Yesu raja,Ph.D.,
Professor
srinatrakamutha@yahoo.co.in
mohanprof1954@rediffmail.com
rameash_vimal@yahoo.co.in
yesuraja@yahoo.co.in
24 Dr.N.Revathy,Ph.D.,
Asst. Professor
nrevathy@rediffmail.com
Horticultural College and research Institute, Periyakulam
1 Dr.V.Ponusami,Ph.D.,
Dean
2 Dr.R.Sankaranarayanan,Ph.
D.,
Professor and Head (Fruits)
3 Dr. D. Saraladevi,
Professor and Head (Veg.)
4 Dr.S. Parthipan
Professor and Head (GRS)
5 Dr.Jeeva Jothi
Professor and Head (Spices)
6 Dr.T. Thangaselvabai
Professor and Head (FMC)
7 Dr.M.Selvarajan
Professor (Hort)
8 Dr.V.Lakshmanan
Professor (Hort)
swamyvp200259@gmail.com
fruitspkm@tnau.ac.in
saraladevotion@g mail.com
sparthihorti@g mail.com
jeevajothitnau@gmail.com
sudarselva@yahoo.co.in
gmselva8@gmail.com
laksh567@yahoo.co.in
9 Dr. S. Balakrishnan, sivabalanhort@gmail.com

Professor (Hort)
10 Dr. S. Saraswathi
surekasaran@yahoo.co.in
Professor (Hort)
11 Dr. R.Swarnapriya
piriaragavan@yahoo.co.in
professor (Hort)
12 Dr.T. Thangaselvabai
Professor and Head (FMC)
13. Dr. M. Theradimani
sudarselva@yahoo.co.in
mtheradi@gmail.com
Professor (Plant pathology)
14 Dr. K. Kumaran
drkkmail@gmail.com
Professor(Forestry)
15 Dr. V. Gomathy
kvgmathi@yahoo.co.in
Professor (Agrl.
Microbiology)
Agricultural College & Research Institute, Killikulam
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Dr.S.Nalliah Durairaj,
Professor (Agronomy),
Dr.R.Krishnan,
Professor (Agronomy),
Dr.R.Babu,
Professor and Head,
Dr.N.Shunmugavalli,
Professor and Head,
Dr.A.Muthuswamy,
Assistant Professor (PBG),
Dr.M.Ariavanamkatha
Pillai,
Professor & Head,
Dr.N.Murugesan,
Professor (Agrl.Ento.),
dr.nalliah@gmail.com.
agrikrish@gmail.com.
rbabu67@gmail.com.
nshunmugavalli@yahoo co.in
swami2k2002@yahoo.co.in
makpillai786@gmail.com
n.murugeson@gmail.com.

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10
11
12
13.
14
Dr.P.Manidurai Manoharan
David, Professor
(Agrl.Entomology)
Dr.D.S.Rajavel,
Professor
(Agrl.Entomology),
Dr.T.Abdul Razak,
Professor
(Agrl.Entomology),
Dr.G.Ravi,
Professor
(Agrl.Entomology),
Dr.G.Ravi,
Professor
(Agrl.Entomology),
Dr.E.G.Ebenezar,
Professor & Head,
Dr.S.Eswaramurthy,
Professor, prof
ememdavid2012@gmail.com
dsrajavel@rediffmail.com
agriento66@yahoo.com.
entoravi@yahoo.com.
entoravi@yahoo.com.
drebenezar@yahoo.co.in
s.eswar@yahoo.co.in
15 Dr.M.Jayasekhar, Professor, jayasrr@yahoo.co.in
16
17
18
Dr.K.Angappan,
Professor,
Dr.V.Subramanian,
Professor & Head,
Dr.P.P.Mahendran,
Professor,
kangappan34@gmail.com.
soilscikkm@tnau.ac.in
soilscikkm@tnau.ac.in