Dr. Rashid Pervez working as Senior Scientist at Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut (Kerala) on the management of insect pests of spices crops through entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN). He has made significant contributions to science and agriculture in the field of plant protection specially management of nematodes and insect pests infesting pulse and spice crops from past 15 years. He started the research work at AMU, Aligarh in 1993 on the biological control of nematodes. Dr. Pervez innovative research on behaviour and biological control of nematodes has yielded him M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees in 1995 and 1999, respectively Two heat tolerant new species of EPN and 5 new species of EPN have been described. One new artificial media based on low cost and locally available ingredients has been synthesized for the mass production of the entomopathogenic nematodes. Dr. Rashid has been Principal Investigator and Co PI of the various Projects funded by ICAR, DST and Kerala Government. He guided 7 M. Sc. students. He served as editor of scientific journals i.e., Trends in Biosciences, Advances in Zoology and Botany and Advances in Life Sciences. He is also chief editor of Masala Samachar (quarterly Newsletter) of IISR Calicut, Masaloon ki Mehak and Malabar Jyoti (TOLIC magazine). He has published 69 research papers in reputed international and national journals, 24 book/bulletin, 3 manual, 1 extension folder and 16 book chapters. He has also attended several symposia and conferences and delivered lectures and present 49 research paper.
