(1)BSc.(Agri) UAS, Merit Scholarship. (2) MSc.(Agri) ICAR Jr. fellowship. (3) PhD. ICAR Sr. fellowship. (4) Qualified National Eligibility Test of ICAR conducted by ASRB 1992. (5) Selected as Scientist through ASRB in the year 1992. (6) Selected as Senior Scientist in All India Competition in March 2002. (7).Selected as Principal Scientist in All India Competition in July 2007. (8). Selected as Head, Plant Physiology, Biochemistry & Post Harvest Technology, CPCRI, Kasaragod in September 2010. (9). Received the best Oral presentation award for the paper entitled ‘Effect of waterlogging on growth and yield of cotton: Genotype Vs environment interaction’ in Crop Production Category of International symposium on ‘ Strategies for sustainable cotton production- A global vision, held at UAS, Dharwad, India, 23-25, November 2004.(10).Received the best Poster award for the paper entitled’ Infocrop- a dynamic simulation model to cotton, its integration with remote sensed data and GIS to predict cotton production-Nagpur district as an example by K.B.Hebbar et al. in a National seminar on Plant Physiology, held at Kerala Agril. University, Kerala from 28-30 Nov., 2006. (11).Reviewer of manuscripts in the following journals: Indian Journal of Plant Physiology, Journal of Plant Biology, Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, Geobios, Current Science, Experimental and Economic Botany. (12).Selected as Global Research Alliance and Borlaug Fellow for the year 2010 under Climate change.

Identified drought tolerant groundnut genotypes based on water use efficiency (WUE) and isotope discrimination techniques and utilized in breeding programsDemonstrated the involvement of Electrical potential as a signal in long distance communication between the roots and shoots in drying soil of field cropsIdentified the phenotypic traits for drought, flooding and salinity tolerance of cotton plantsIdentified the cause of sudden wilt/parawilt in cotton and evolved the management strategiesDeveloped and validated an Infocrop-cotton simulation model to simulate the growth and yield of cotton under varied agroclimatic conditionsAssessed the impact of future climate (A2, B2 and A1B scenarios) on the cotton production of India using the Infocrop –cotton simulation modelIdentified the phenotypic traits in contrasting genotypes responsible for slow wilting and fast wilting of soybean and early and slow senescing wheat linesDemonstrated the role of nutrients in early senescence development of wheat Under the Changing Climatic Scenario