Dr. P.Murali Arthanari, Assistant Professor (Agronomy) graduated from Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University, obtained post graduate and doctoral degree in Agronomy from Coimbatore campus of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, excelling in all the courses of study. He is currently working at Directorate of Weed Science Research Centre, Department of Agronomy, TNAU, Coimbatore and handling research projects on weed management in field crops and involving UG and PG teaching on weed science. He has to his credit more than 35 research publications in National and International journals. He is recipient of international award on food security, T. Kondareddy award for outstanding research in Agronomy and young scientist award from ISEP, Gorakhpur.