Abstract of outstanding contribution: Dr.N.Senthil, Professor (Biotechnology) As a Molecular Plant breeder, two decade of my involvement in millet breeding programme leads to the development of four minor millet varieties and three wheat varieties. Published 89 research papers in national journals and 59 papers in international journals with Scopus index of 11. The Google scholar analytics my publications shows H index of 20 and i10 index of 49. Major Awards • CSIR Award for the Doctoral Research, 1993,Government of India • STA-Japanese government award of Post-Doctoral Research ,2000 • Tamil Nadu Government Scientist award, 2014,TNAU Best Researcher Award, 2016 Contribution to research: • Involved in development minor millet varieties viz., Ragi (Co(Ra) 14), Samai (CO(Sa)4), Panivaragu (CO(Pv)5) and Kudaraivali (CO(Kv) 2).Comparative transcriptome studied in barnyard millet (Kuthiraivali) resulted in development EST sequence resource • Tropical wheat varieties were developed in collaboration with IARI Wellington (Bread wheat varieties COW (W) 1, COW3 and a samba wheat variety COW 2) .Identified durable rust resistance QTL using genome wide association mapping approach. • Involved in development of Mungbean variety Vamban 3 and Blackgram varieties viz., Vamban (Bg) 6 & Vamban 7 in collaboration with NCRC, Vamban. Constructed SNP based Mungbean linkage map for mapping MYMV resistance and bruchid resistance.