Dr. A.R.N.S.Subbanna

Membership in Professional bodies

Fellow of the Society of Biocontrol Advancement, Bangalore.

Life member of Society of Biocontrol Advancement

Life member of Indian Society of Soil Biology and Ecology

Annual member of Entomological Society of India

Honours & Awards

Edita David Memorial Award-2022 for a research publication entitled “Gut microbial diversity across five important species of whitgrubs: An unculturable analysis of beetles of Anomala and Holotrichia (Scarabeidae: Coleoptera)” during 18^th AZRA international conference on “Advances in applied zoological researches towards food, feed and nutritional security and safer environment” held from 10-11^th November, 2022 at Bhubaneswar.

Best oral presentation award in 7^th National conference on biological Control held at Bengalore during December 15-17, 2022.

SBA-Dr TN Manjunath Young Scientist award for significant contributions to biological control research.

Publications 

Subbanna, A. R. N. S., Rajasekhara, H., Stanley, J., Mishra, K. K., &Pattanayak, A. (2018). Pesticidal prospectives of chitinolytic bacteria in agricultural pest management. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 116, 52-66.

Subbanna, A. R. N. S., Chandrashekara, C., Stanley, J., Mishra, K. K., Mishra, P. K., &Pattanayak, A. (2019). Bio-efficacy of chitinolytic Bacillus thuringiensis isolates native to northwestern Indian Himalayas and their synergistic toxicity with selected insecticides. Pesticide biochemistry and physiology, 158, 166-174.

Reddy, M. S. S., Agnihotri, M., Jaiswal, J. P., Subbanna, A. R., & Karthik, S. (2022). Intra species diversity of Helicoverpaarmigera (Hübner)(Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in relation to geography and host plants affiliation in Uttarakhand Himalayan population, India. Phytoparasitica, 50(2), 359-373.

Karki, N., Paschapur, A. U., Subbanna, A. R., Stanley, J., Singh, A. K., Bisht, I., & Gupta, J. P. (2023). Identification and characterization of chitinase-producing bacteria from gut of pleurostict scarab beetle grubs (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 43(5), 1539-1551.

Mishra, P. K., Bisht, S. C., Ruwari, P., Subbanna, A. R. N. S., Bisht, J. K., Bhatt, J. C., & Gupta, H. S. (2017). Genetic diversity and functional characterization of endophytic Bacillus thuringiensis isolates from the North Western Indian Himalayas. Annals of microbiology, 67(2), 143-155.

Stanley, J., Sah, K., Subbanna, A. R., Preetha, G., & Gupta, J. (2017). How efficient is Apis cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in pollinating cabbage, Brassica oleracea var. capitata? Pollination behavior, pollinator effectiveness, pollinator requirement, and impact of pollination. Journal of Economic Entomology, 110(3), 826-834.

Stanley, J., Sah, K., & Subbanna, A. R. (2017). How efficient is the Asian honey bee, Apis cerana in pollinating mustard, Brassica campestris var. toria? Pollination behavior, pollinator efficiency, pollinator requirements and impact of pollination. Journal of Apicultural Research, 56(4), 439-451.

Subbanna, A. R. N. S., Kalyana babu, B., Stanley, J., Jain, S. K., Bhatt, J. C., & Bisht, J. K. (2016). Phylogeny and genetic divergence of Indian Himalayan population of Anomaladimidiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Agricultural research, 5, 64-71.

Subbanna, A. R. N. S., Khan, M. S., Srivastava, R. M., Mishra, P. K., Babu, B. K., &Venkateswarlu, V. (2018). Interspecies diversity of Bacillus thuringiensis isolates native from North Western Indian Himalayas. Journal of Environmental Biology, 39(3), 306-313.

Subbanna, A.R.N.S., Khan, M. S., Johnson, S., & Yogi, M. K. (2017). Diversity and functional annotation of chitinolytic Bacillus and associated chitinases from north western Indian Himalayas. Applied Soil Ecology, 119, 46-55.

Projects 

Inhouse projects

Integrated Pest Management (Principal Investigator)

Oil Palm Based Farming Systems (Associate) 

Dissemination of Technology and ICT Applications in Oil Palm Sector (Associate)

Externally funded projects

Early generation selection indices for high oil yield, disease and pest resistance (Funding source: DA&FW, Govt. of India)

Marker Assisted selection of oil palm germplasm resistant to basal stem rot and development of tool for managing Rugose Spiralling Whitefly (Funding source: DA&FW, Govt. of India)

Studies on insect pollination of oil palm under changing climate with special emphasis to pollinating weevil, Elaeidobius kamerunicus Faust (Funding source: DA&FW, Govt. of India)

Agricultural Mechanization-Drone Technology Demonstration (Funding source: ICAR)