Name: Subramanian Sevgan Country of birth: India Position ... - icipe

Name: Subramanian Sevgan
Country of birth: India
Position Title: Senior Scientist
Institution: icipe-African Insect Science for Food and Health
Contact Address:
Thrips IPM Program, Plant Health Division,
icipe-African insect Science for Food and Health,
P.O.Box. 30772 - 00100,
Phone:+254 (20) 8632000 (exte. 2159)
Mobile: +254-(0)722-329927
email: ssubramania@icipe.org
subbisgv@rediffmail.com
Speciality Area: Insect Virology and Integrated Pest Management
Education:
1999 – 2003 Ph.D., Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India
Agricultural Entomology
1996 -1998 M.Sc. (Ag.,) Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India
Agricultural Entomology
1991-1995 B.Sc. (Ag.,) Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu
Agricultural University, Killikulam - Agriculture
Positions held (since terminal degree):
2008 – till date Senior Scientist, Thrips IPM Program, icipe, Nairobi, Kenya
2006 – 2008 Post Doctoral Fellow, DBM bio-control program, icipe, Nairobi, Kenya
2004 - 2006 Teaching Assistant (Agrl. Entomology), Horticultural Research Station,
Thadiyankudisai, TNAU.
2003 - 2004 Research associate, Centre for Plant Molecular Biology, TNAU
Expertise:
- Insect Virology
- Horticultural Pest Management
- Insect Ecological and Behavioral evaluation
- Thrips Identification
- Thrips management in Horticultural crops

Honors and Awards (since terminal degree):
Awarded First Prize for Best poster presentation in “National Conference on Recent trends
in Microbial Biotechnology”, 11 th and 12 th March-2004, SASTRA Deemed University,
Thanjavur
Major research accomplishments:
First report of spiracular mode of infection by Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus.
(Jeyarani, S, Rabindra, R. J., Sathiah, N., Karuppachamy, P and S. Subramanian.
2007. Journal of Virological Methods 142: 213 – 217).
Showed how incubation temperature can influence the productivity and quality of Spodoptera
litura nucleopolyhedrovirus. (S. Subramanian, G. Santharam, N. Sathiah, J. S.
Kennedy and R.J. Rabindra, 2006 Biological Control 37: 367 – 374)
Illustrated Impact of granulovirus infection on susceptibility of Spodoptera litura to
insecticides. (S. Subramanian, R.J. Rabindra, S. Palaniswamy, N. Sathiah and B.
Rajasekaran. 2005. Biological Control 33: 165 – 172)
Selection of refereed journal publications (2002-present)
S. Subramanian, R.J. Rabindra and N. Sathiah, 2009. Economic threshold for the
management of Plutella xylostella with granulovirus in cauliflower ecosystem.
Phytoparasitica, DOI 10.1007/s12600-009-0066-z
S. Subramanian and B. Löhr, 2008. Is Diamondback Moth a polyphagous pest? Some
thoughts about its host range expansion to pea. In: Proc. of 5 th International workshop on
The management of Diamondback moth and other crucifer pests. A.M. Shelton¸
H.L.Collins, Z.Youjun and W. U. Qingjun (eds.). pp. 63 – 71, Oct, 24 th – 27th , Beijing,
China Agricultural Science and Technology Press, China.
S. Subramanian, R. J. Rabindra, and S. Sithanantham, 2008. Genetic and biological
variations among Plutella xylostella granulovirus isolates. Phytoparasitica 36: 220-230.
Jeyarani, S, Rabindra, R. J., Sathiah, N., Karuppachamy, P and S. Subramanian. 2007.
Evaluation of spiracle mode of infection for Helicoverpa armigera nucleopolyhedrovirus
mass production. Journal of Virological Methods 142: 213 – 217.
S. Subramanian, G. Santharam, N. Sathiah, J. S. Kennedy and R.J. Rabindra, 2006.
Influence of incubation temperature on productivity and quality of Spodoptera litura
nucleopolyhedrovirus. Biological Control 37: 367 – 374.
S. Subramanian and S. Mohankumar. 2006. Genetic variability of the bollworm,
Helicoverpa armigera, occurring on different host plants. 8pp. Journal of Insect Science
6: 26, available online: insectscience.org/6.26.
S. Subramanian, R.J. Rabindra, S. Palaniswamy, N. Sathiah and B. Rajasekaran. 2005.
Impact of granulovirus infection on susceptibility of Spodoptera litura to insecticides.
Biological Control 33: 165 – 172.
S. Subramanian, R. Parthasarathy, R.J. Rabindra, N. Sathiah and S. Rajagopal babu. 2005.
The infectivity of the entomopathogenic nematode, Steinernema glaseri against the
moringa hairy caterpillar, Eupterote mollifera. Nematologia mediterranea. 33: 151 – 156.

R. Sriram, P. A. Saravanan, M. Muthuraman, S. Mohankumar and S. Subramanian. 2004.
Genetic Diversity Analysis of Stingless Bees in India. In: Proc. of 8 th IBRA International
Conference on Tropical Bees and VI Encontro sobre Abelhas. K. H. Hartfelder, D. D.
Jong, R. A. Pereira, A. D. S. Cristino, M. M. Morais, E. D. Tanaka, A. P. Lourenco, J. E.
B. da Silva, G. F. De Almeida and A. M do Nascimento (eds.).pp. 366 – 370. Sep. 6 – 10,
Ribeiro Perto, Sao Paulo, Brazil
S. GeethaRajalakshmi, S. Subramanian, S. Mohankumar and P. S. Shanmugasundaram.
2006. Molecular analysis of Leucinodes orbonalis populations within Tamil Nadu using
lepidopteran specific random markers. Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems 12:
29 – 36.
S. GeethaRajalakshmi, S. Subramanian, S. Jaigeetha and S. Mohankumar. 2005. A novel
method of rearing the fruit and shoot borer, Leucinodes orbonalis Guen. Insect
Environment 10: 179 – 180.
Parthasarathy, R., S. RajagopalBabu, S. Subramanian, R. J. Rabindra and B. Rajasekaran.
2004. Comparative toxicity of certain insecticides to the moringa hairy caterpillar,
Eupterote mollifera (Walker) and its economics. Pest management in Horticultural
Ecosystems, 10, 173 – 178.
Rabindra, R.J., M. Swamiappan, R. Parthasarathy, S. Subramanian, J.S. Kennedy, N.
Sathiah and B. Rajsekaran. 2003. Isolation and characterisation of nuclear polyhedrosis
Virus from the looper Boarmia (=Ascotis) selenaria (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) Pest
Management in Horticultural Ecosystems 9: 49 – 53.
RajagopalBabu, S., R. Parthasarathy, S. Subramanian, R. J. Rabindra and J. S. Kennedy.
2002. Susceptibility of the moringa hairy caterpillar, Eupterote mollifera walker
(Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae) to certain formulations of Bacillus thuringienseis In:
Biological control of Lepidopteran Pests. Tandon, P. L., Ballal, C. R., Jalali, S. K. and R.
J. Rabindra (eds.) Society for Biocontrol Advancement, Bangalore, pp. 177-179.
Book chapters:
S. Subramanian, G. Santharam, J. S. Kennedy, N. Sathiah and R. J. Rabindra. 2007.
Glycerol-based aqueous formulation of Nucleopolyhedrovirus in the management of
Spodoptera litura. In: S. Ignacimuthu, sj, and S. Jayaraj (Eds.) Biotechnology and Insect
Pest Management , Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. Pp. 107 - 116.
S. Mohankumar, T. Ramasubramanian and S. Subramanian, 2007. Intra-population
variation among the Helicoverpa armigera population identified using Simple sequence
repeat markers. In: S. Ignacimuthu, sj, and S. Jayaraj (Eds.) Biotechnology and Insect
Pest Management , Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. Pp. 226 – 230.
S. Subramanian, S. Geetha, G. Santharam and R.J. Rabindra, 2006. Diversity analysis of
Spodoptera litura nuclear polyhedrosis virus isolates In: S. Ignacimuthu, sj, and S.
Jayaraj (Eds.) Biodiversity and Insect Pest Management , Narosa Publishing House, New
Delhi. Pp. 216 – 223.
Sunil Martin, S. Subramanian, Amit Kumar Mishra and S. Mohankumar. 2006. Diversity of
Solanum spp. in relation to resistance to Eggplant shoot and fruit borer, Leucinodes
orbonalis Guenee”. In: S. Ignacimuthu, sj, and S. Jayaraj (Eds.) Biodiversity and Insect
Pest Management Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi. 201 – 209.

S. Subramanian, R.J. Rabindra, S. Palaniswamy and N. Sathiah. 2005. Susceptibility of
different instars of Spodoptera litura (F.) to its granulosis virus and vertical transmission
of virus. In: S. Ignacimuthu, sj, and S. Jayaraj (Eds.) Green Pesticides for Insect Pest
Management. Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, pp. 165 – 172.
S. Mohankumar, A. Selvi, M. Asaithambi, S. Subramanian, V. Thiruvengadam and P.
Shanmugasundaram. 2005. Marker-assisted selection as a strategy for selecting insect
resistant breeding lines with improved efficiency. In: S. Ignacimuthu, sj, and S. Jayaraj
(Eds.) Green Pesticides for Insect Pest Management. Narosa Publishing House, New
Delhi, pp. 241 - 250.
N. Sathiah, R. J. Rabindra, S. Palaniswamy, K. P. Jayant, S Subramanian, C. M. Senthil
Kumar, B. Rajasekaran and J.S.Kennedy. 2005 Microbial Control of Helicoverpa
armigera. In: R. J. Rabindra., S.S. Hussaini and B. Ramanujam (Eds.) Microbial
biopesticides formulation and application. Tech. Doc. No. 55, Project Directorate of
Biological Control, Bangalore -560 024. pp. 49-89.
Mohankumar, S and S. Subramanian. 2004. Biotechnological Approaches for Integrated pest
Management in vegetable crops. Proceedings of the Asian Regional IPM CRSP
Workshop, June 29 – 30, 2004, Manila, Phillipines. pp 71 - 97 Available Online at
http://www.oired.vt.edu/ipmcrsp/meetings/consolidated%20na%20talaga.pdf.
Invited presentations at major international conferences (2002-present – Maximum 8)
2009 – “IX International Symposium on Thysanoptera and Tospoviruses, 31 st August – 4 th
September, 2009, Sea World, Queensland, Australia. Paper: Altitudinal differences in
abundance and diversity of thrips on tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) in East
Africa
2008 - “XXIII International Congress of Entomology”, 6 th – 12 th July, 2008, International
convention centre, Durban. Papers: Economic threshold for the management of
Plutella xylostella with granulovirus in cauliflower
2006 - “The 5 th International Workshop on management of the diamondback moth and
other crucifer pest” 24 th – 27 th October, 2006. Beijing, China. Papers: Is
diamondback moth a polyphagous pest? Some thoughts about its host range
expansion to pea
Research Grants (2004 – present):
Funding source Grant Title (Principal investigators) Amount
US$
BMZ
Integrated control of thrips in vegetables
in eastern Africa (Subramanian Sevgan)
Period
1.3million June 2008 –
till date