Forest trees posess behaviour similar to that of annual plants and other living organisms. Following the overwhelming success in plant breeding across the world, research programmes on tree breeding were also launched in forestry in the middle of the last century. Currently considerable knowledge has been generated in tree improvement, but there are only a limited number scientific publications collating all the available information. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) mooted the idea of compiling the state-of-the-art information from actual field workers and teaching personnel of State Agricultural Universities in the selected areas, so as to serve as a resource material for the graduate students.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M. Paramathma
Dr. M. Paramathma, Professor and head, Department of tree Breeding, Forest College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural university, Mettupalayam has 25 years if experience in the field of UG and PG teaching, research and extension service. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian national University, Australia during the year 1998. He has received a number of prizes and awards like ‘Best Teacher Award’ in 1995, ‘Best research Worker in Agroforestry Award’ in 1998, ‘International Distinguished Leadership Award’ in 2000, ‘Best PG Teacher’ in 2002 etc. He has carried out 15 research projects and as a result, he was one of the scientists responsible for the release of five forage crops and one tree species in Tamil Nadu. He has guided 8 MSc students and 6 PhD Students. He has published 95 research papers national and International level and 68 popular articles in English and Tamil. He also co edited 6 books.
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