Dr. KV Sankaran

Director of KFRI and Coordinator of FAO’s Asia-Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN) has more than thirty years of research in forest mycology especially control of fungal pathogens of tropical forest plantations, conservation of benign forest fungi and role of mycorrhizal fungi in improving growth of forest trees. Besides his research has helped formulate strategies for enhancing productivity of plantation forests through improved silviculture. Currently he cocordinate research in the areas of biology and ecology of invasive species in forest ecosystems.