Dr. Murali Gopal Principal Scientist Email :mgcpcri@yahoo.co.in Phone No:04994-232894 / 5 /6,Ext. 225 Mobile No. :9446418744
Qualification	PhD
Specialization	Soil Microbiology
Area of interest	• Recycling lignin rich palm-biomass residues & its Microbiology• Bio-inoculants for hardy perennial crop growth.• Rhizosphere microbial ecology.• Metagenomics and microbial bioinformatics .
Total publications	28
Selected publications	12
Awards	1). NAIP Intl. Training Fellowship Award in Mol. Microbial Taxonomy - Univ. of Georgia, Athens, USA, Aug-Nov. 2010. 2). Rothamsted International Post-Doctoral Fellowship Award – 2007-08, Rothamsted Research, UK. 3.) ICAR Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Res. Award in Agrl. & Allied Sciences for the biennium 2005-06. 4). Best Poster Award – Intl. Conf. on Microbial Diversity: Current Perspectives and Potential Applications – Uni. of Delhi, South Campus, New Delhi, April 16-18, 2005. 5). MASHAV, Israel, Scholarship Award for undergoing graduate course in ‘Biotech. in Agrl. – Plants & Microorganisms’ at Hebrew Uni. of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agrl., Food & Environ. Quality Science, Rehovot, Israel- Jan-March 2004. 6). Best Poster Award - National Conf. on Coastal Agrl. Res., ICAR Res. Complex for Goa , Old Goa, 6-7 April 2002. 7). NET-ICAR Award – 1993, by ASRB, New Delhi. 8). Gold Medal Award for Outstanding Academic qualifications in the M. Sc. Microbiol. at IARI, New Delhi, in 1992. 9). DST/DBT/INSA/CSIR Intl. Travel Grant Awards to attend Intl. Conferences in Australia (2005) and Switzerland (2011). 10). ICAR Jr. & Sr. Fellowship Award for doing M.Sc (1989) .& Ph. D (1991) in IARI, New Delhi.
Significant achievements	• Unraveled the culturable/unculturable bacterial diversity of coconut leaf vermicomposting through pyrosequencing.• Standardized vermiwash production from coconut leaf vermicompost.• Established the positive impact of coconut leaf vermicompost and vermiwash on soil health and fertility. • Promoted coconut leaf vermicomposting technology in coconut growing states in India through supply of nucleus earthworm culture.• Collected & screened more than 1000 PGPR isolates from coconut, arecanut and cocoa for bio-inoculant development.• Initiated allelopathic interaction studies in coconut based cropping system. • Recovered Oryctes virus from Lakshadweep Islands and Metarhizium anisopliae for bio-control of coconut insect pest.
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