Prakash Kumar Pallathadka
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| birth_date = 8 February
| birth_place = Pallathadka, Kasaragod, Kerala, India
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Professor
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| spouse = Nagaratna Prakash
| children = Ravi (Son), Shashi (Daughter)
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Prakash Kumar Pallathadka is a professor of biological sciences specializing in plant development, tissue culture, plant psychology and molecular biology at the Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore (NUS).{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/cv/kumar.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=16 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304041649/http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/cv/kumar.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/Kumar.htm |title=NUS – National University of Singapore |access-date=16 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217084711/http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/Kumar.htm |archive-date=17 December 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/ |title=NUS – National University of Singapore |access-date=16 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130223243/http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/ |archive-date=30 November 2012 |url-status=dead }}
History, education and family
He did his Bachelor of Science from University of Mysore with First Class in 1979 and went on to pursue MSc from Madras University in 1981. As an outgoing graduate at Madras University, he won the first rank with first class. His doctoral research was completed in the year of 1988 and he awarded PhD from the University of Calgary, Canada.
He is the first of six children of Pallathadka Venkatramana Bhat & Taradevi. He hails from Pallathadka, a hamlet in Kasaragod district of the State of Kerala in India. He is a Havyaka Brahmin and belongs to the well-known Pallathadka Family. He is married to Nagaratna Prakash and has two children, one son and one daughter.
Profession
He is currently serving as a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences in the main campus of NUS. Ever since joining the National University of Singapore, he has held important positions at various levels.
He is also editor of Plant Cell Reports (from Jan 1999) and Plant Biotechnology Reports (from April 2007) (Both Academic Research Journals published by Springer).{{Cite web |title=Plant Biotechnology Reports |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/11816/editors |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=SpringerLink |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Plant Cell Reports |url=https://www.springer.com/journal/299 |access-date=2024-01-12 |website=Springer |language=en}}
He has a number of patents[http://www.faqs.org/patents/inventor/kumar-singapore-4/ Kumar, Singapore - Patent applications][http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0285825.html NOVEL SNAKE TOXIN – National University of Singapore][http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2011/0023187.html Putative Cytokinin Receptor and Methods for Use Thereof – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE] and research accomplishments to his name.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/details/kumar_accomp.html |title=NUS – National University of Singapore |access-date=16 December 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117172212/http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/staff/details/kumar_accomp.html |archive-date=17 November 2011 |url-status=dead }} He has also authored a number of books and research papers.
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