Ramasamy Perumal

i) Leadership

·       Established the development and commercialization of K-State sorghum hybrids in partnership with public (TAMU, USDA, Lubbock, TX) and private (S&W Seeds Co.) breeding programs.

·       Established a strong partnership and collaborative network with international public and private institutions [The Indian Institute of Millet Research (IIMR), ICRISAT, SRM University and TNAU, India and University of Thies, Senegal] for the exchange of breeding materials and capacity building.

·       Established MoU between KSU and SRM University, India and strengthened Indo-US collaboration for research and capacity building (graduate students’ study, visiting scholars exchange visitors’ program).

·       Served as Board member and successfully organized two Sorghum Improvement Conference of North America (SICNA) Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas from March 28-30, 2022; Oklahoma City, OK, USA - April 2-4, 2024).

ii) Editorial board and research paper review

·       Crop Science - Associate Editor (since 2020); Crop Science – Technical Editor (Special issue on Millets 2023); PLOS ONE - Academic editor (since 2018); Crop Breeding, Genetics and Genomics - Associate Editor (since 2019); International Journal of Plant Breeding and Genetics - Technical editor (2011 to 2015).

·       Served as the Chief Editor for the monograph on Pearl Millet 2023, Wiley Publishers, ACSESS DL Book, ASA and CSSA, Madison, WI

·       Serving as the Editor for the monograph on The World Millets: Crops for Food, Nutrition and Sustainability, Wiley Publishers, ACSESS DL Book, ASA and CSSA, Madison, WI

·       Served as the Managing editor In Ciampitti, I. and Prasad, P.V.V. (Eds.), Sorghum: A state of the art and future perspectives, Agron. Monogr. 58. ASA and CSSA, Madison, WI.

• Serving as member in the Advisory Committee for the compendium of sorghum diseases (section: Sorghum breeding and diseases, 3rd Edition, American Phyto-pathological Society's publication).

·       Published 135 research articles (Google Citations: 4686; h-index: 42; i10-index: 83), 2 Books Editor, 25 book chapters, 99 abstracts/posters and 6 extension publications           

• Serving as a potential reviewer for 21 journals and reviewed more than 200 research manuscripts: Journal of Plant Registrations, Crop Science, Field Crops Research, Plant Breeding, Euphytica, Molecular Breeding, Agronomy Journal, 3Biotech, BMC Genomics, Plant Disease, PLOS ONE, G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, Physiology and Molecular Plant Pathology, Canadian Jounal of Plant Science, Plant Genome, Frontiers in Plant Science, Scientific Reports, Transgenic Research, Crop Protection, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, Journal of Sustainable Bioenergy Systems.