Ns Subba Rao

Biography

Nanjappa Shamanna Subbarao did his MSc (1949) from Central College, Bangalore and PhD (1958) from Madras University. Thereafter, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto, Canada (1958-61); Research Officer, University of Madras (1961-63); Bacterial Physiologist, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi (1963-71) Nuffield Foundation Fellow, Rothamsted Experimental Station, England (1968-69); Professor & Head, Microbiology Division, IARI (1971-85); Project Director, Agro-energy, IARI (1986); and INSA Senior Scientist (1987-89), University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore. He was also Visiting Professor, Institute of Microbiology, Moscow (1975), Pasteur Institute, Paris (1976), Nagoya University, Japan (1977), Queens University, Kingston, Canada (1978), McGill University, Montreal (1979), IRNA-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain (1990 & 1993), Michigan State University, USA (1991), and IAEA Expert, Bangladesh (1987). 

Research Interest

Soil Microbiology & Biofertilizers