Award and Honors:

• Dr CV Patil Meritorious scholarship award during under graduation.
• ICAR-JRF awarded for perusing MSc (Plant Pathology).
• ICAR-SRF awarded for perusing PhD (Plant Pathology).
• Awarded the PR Verma Best Doctoral Thesis award by “Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology” in ISMPP International conference on “Plant Health for Human Welfare” held at Udaipur, Rajasthan during 1-4 th November 2017.

Foreign Visits : 

Technologies/Products/Varieties/Novel germplasm/Methodologies developed:-  

• Developed an efficient technique by altering light and nutritional sources to obtain enhanced sporulation in Bipolaris oryzae.
• Developed high throughput artificial mass screening protocol for screening large number of rice genotypes for brown spot disease of rice.
• Identified the few rice germplasm/breeding lines resistant to brown spot disease.
• Isolated and maintained the good collection of Bipolaris oryzae isolates from different rice ecosystems of India.

Patents/copyrights :

Associated with copyright "Computer software work Aavishkar app diagnoses major rice insect pests/diseases/weeds with a camera click on the symptom and generates advisories on crop management along with accuracy of the AI model"

Student Guided : 2 (MSc) students as member

Editors/Reviewers of the Journals :

Reviewer for few Peer revived national Journals

Member of Scientific Society : 

• Life member of Indian Phytopathological Society.
• Life member of Indian Society of Mycology and Plant Pathology.
• Life member of Society for the advancement of Rice Research.
• Life member of Plant Protection Association of India.
• Life member of Association of Agro-meteorologists, India

Training Organized :

Training Undergone :

• FOCARS training: Undergone FOCARS training at NAARM in 105th batch from 05-01-2017 to 4-04-2017.
• Professional attachment training at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi: Undergone Professional attachment training at ICAR-IARI, New Delhi from 01-06-2017 to 31-08-2017.
• Attended a training on “Advanced Statistical Techniques For Data Analysis Using R” from 3rd to 15th January 2022, organized by ICAR-IIRR in collaborations with Society For Advancement Of Rice Research.

Publications (Top 30) :

• Basavaraj K., G.S. Jasudasu, V. Prakasam, D. Ladhalakshmi, C. Kannan, D. Krishnaveni, G.S. Laha, and M.S. Prasad: (2023). Enhanced sporulation by different light and nutritional sources in Bipolaris oryzae causing brown spot disease of rice. J. Environ. Biol., 44, 380-389.
• Basavaraj P.S., Bharamappanavara Muralidhara, C.A. Manoj, M.S. Anantha, Santhosha Rathod, Ch. Damodar Raju, P. Senguttuvel, M.S. Madhav, M. Srinivas Prasad, V. Prakasam, K. Basavaraj, Jyoti Badri, L.V. Subbarao, R.M. Sundaram, C. Gireesh. (2021). Identification and molecular characterization of high yielding blast resistant lines derived from Oryza rufipogan Griff. In the background of ‘Samba Mahsuri’ rice. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 68: 1905-1921.
• Basavaraj K, A.S. Rathi, N.P. Gurav and Anil Kumar. (2019). Morpho-Pathogenic variability in Albugo candida isolates, causing white rust of Indian Mustard. Journal of Mycology and Plant pathology. 49(1): 12-26.
• Basavaraj K, A.S. Rathi, N.P. Gurav, Anil Kumar, Santhosha Rahod and Ram Niwas. (2020). Influence of weather variables on progression of white rust disease of Indian mustard. Journal of Agrometerology, 22(3): 362-366.
• Basavaraj K, A.S. Rathi, N.P. Gurav, Rakesh Punia and Anil Kumar. (2020). Evaluation of selected fungicides for the management of white rust of Indian mustard. Journal of Oilseeds Research, 37(2): 99-103.
• Manoj, C.A., Muralidhara, B., Basavaraj, P.S. et al. Improvement of bacterial blight resistance of the high yielding, fine-grain, rice variety, Gangavati sona through marker-assisted backcross breeding. 3 Biotech 13, 393 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13205-023-03828-0.
• Kannan Chinnaswami, Divya Mishra, Anila Miriyala, Prakasam Vellaichamy, Basavaraj Kurubar, Jasudasu Gompa, Srinivas Prasad Madamsetty and Raman Meenakshi Sundaram. (2021). Native isolates of Trichoderma as bio-suppressants against sheath blight and stem rot pathogens of rice. Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 31(12): 1-10.
• Reddy, S, Vinay Vardhan, Suvarna Rani, Ch, Sameer Kumar, C.V, and K Basavaraj. 2024. “Study of Variability and Correlation for Yield Attributing and Grain Quality Characters in Aromatic Short Grain Rice”. Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 46 (9):164-73. https://doi.org/10.9734/jeai/2024/v46i92815.
• Nagaraju B., K. Basavaraj, C. Gireesh, and Sasipriya S. 2023. “Variability Parameters, Correlation Studies and Path Analysis of Yield and Yield-Related Traits in Rice (Oryza Sativa L.): A Comprehensive Review”. International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 13 (11):2015-22. https://doi.org/10.9734/ijecc/2023/v13i113360.
• Ladhalakshmi D*, Yugander A, Laha GS, Vijayasamundeeswari A, Basavaraj K, Divya Balakrishnan1, Preeti, Bhaskar M, Aparna MD and Prasad MS. 2022. Assessing the molecular variability in Ustilaginoidea virens, the rice false smut pathogen with ISSR markers. Journal of Rice Research 2022, Vol 15 (1): 51-57.
• Gurav N.P., Naresh Mehta, K. Basavaraj and Surjeet Singh. (2017). Cultural, Morphological variability and anastomosis behavior in Rhizoctonia solani isolates causing sheath blight of rice. Journal of Mycology and Plant Pathology. 47(4): 382-393.