, an Indian-born American citizen, is a
Professor of Crop Science at Alabama A&M University, Alabama,
USA. Dr. Mentreddy earned BS and MS in Agriculture from the
Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, India, and a Ph.D. in
Agronomy from the University of Tasmania, Australia. His research
focuses on developing cover crop-based sustainable organic crop
management practices for vegetable and medicinal herbs in the
open field and agroforestry systems; and evaluating low-
temperature plasma for seed and meat sanitization, improving seed
germination, plant growth, and yield. Dr. Mentreddy teaches
agricultural science courses at the undergraduate and graduate
levels. (srinivasa.mentreddy@aamu.edu)