Mahadevamurthy Murali works as a Guest Lecturer at the Department of Studies in Botany at the University of Mysore. He earned his M.Sc. in Botany at the Department of Studies in Botany at the University of Mysore in 2007 and earned his Ph.D. in Botany at the Department of Studies in Botany at the University of Mysore in 2013. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Guest Faculty at the Department of Studies in Botany, Manasagangorti, University of Mysore. He worked as UGC- Post-Doctoral Fellow at the department from 2016 to 2021. He has authored over 75 research publications,10 book cahpters and 1 authored book with a total of 1210 citations and an h-index of 21 (Scopus).