Tudu Hommie: Adding some info v1...

2026-02-08T12:02:08Z

Adding some info v1...

New page

{{Short description|Indian entomologist (1903–1983)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Magadi Puttarudriah
| image = Magadi Puttarudriah.jpg
| alt = 
| caption =
| birth_name = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1903|12|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Magadi]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1983|12|12|1903|12|16|df=y}}
| death_place =
| other_names =
| education = [[Central College, Bangalore]] BSc<br/>[[University of California, Berkeley]] MS, PhD
| occupation = entomologist
| years_active =
| known_for = first professor of entomology at the [[University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore]]
| notable_works =
| spouse = {{marriage|Saraswathamma|1936}}
| children = 4 daughters
}}
'''Magadi Puttarudriah''' (16 December 1903 – 12 December 1983) was an Indian entomologist who worked in the Government of Mysore and after 1957 in the Government of Karnataka. He was the first professor of entomology at the [[University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore]] when it was established in 1964.

== Life and work ==
[[File:Coleman_Bangalore_entomologists.jpg|thumb|left|Puttarudriah (standing leftmost) in 1953-54 during a visit of [[Leslie Coleman]]]]
Puttarudriah was born in [[Magadi]] in a farming family and obtained his BSc from [[Central College, Bangalore]] in 1932–33. He then worked in the Department of Agriculture as part of a scheme to study fish poisons and the potential for their use as pesticides.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Puttarudriah, M.|author2= T. V. Subramaniam|title=Insecticidal value of plant fish-poisons and other forest products. Part. 1. Report of the Mysore Agricultural Department 36|publisher=Mysore Agricultural Department| year=1935}}</ref> This continued to be a research interest even later.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Puttarudriah M.|author2= Bhatta L.|year= 1955|title= A preliminary note on studies of Mysore plants as source of insecticides.|journal= Indian Journal of Entomology |volume=17|pages=165–174}}</ref> He was later posted to Chikmagalur to enforce the Pest Control Act to control the coffee white stem borer ''[[Xylotrechus quadripes]].'' He was in charge of enforcing control measures against the pest between 1940 and 1944. In 1944 he was transferred to Bangalore and was involved in teaching diploma students at the Agricultural School in Hebbal. In 1948 he was deputed to study at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], obtaining his MS (1949) and PhD (1951) as a student of [[Ray Fred Smith]]. Other influences included [[Edward Arthur Steinhaus]] and [[Abraham E. Michelbacher]]. His MS research was on the biological control of the [[Autographa californica|alfalfa looper]] in California<ref>{{cite journal |author=Puttarudriah, M. |year=1953 |title=The natural control of the Alfalfa Looper in central California. |journal=J. Econ. Entomol. |volume=46 |issue=4 |page=723|doi=10.1093/jee/46.4.723 }}</ref> and PhD work on the biology of ''[[Heliothis phloxiphaga]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Puttarudriah|first1=M.|last2=Basavanna|first2=G. P. Channa|date=1956|title=A Study on the Identity of Bracon hebetor Say and Bracon brevicornis Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0007485300046617/type/journal_article|journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research|language=en|volume=47|issue=1|pages=183–191|doi=10.1017/S0007485300046617|issn=0007-4853|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He visited the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Belleville in Canada, the Citrus Experimental Station at Riverside, and the Gill Tract Laboratory at Albany for Biocontrol. He also visited the Rothamstead Laboratory and Edinburgh University.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |author=ರಾಜಗೋಪಾಲ್, ಡಿ. |title=ಡಾ. ಎಂ.ಪುಟ್ಟರುದ್ರಯ್ಯ. ಕೃಷಿ ಜ್ಞಾನ ಭಂಡಾರ ಮಾಹೆ - 45 |publisher=University of Agricultural Sciences |year=2014 |place=Bangalore |language=kn}}</ref> He returned in 1951 and joined the department of agriculture and also served as a professor of entomology in the newly created University of Agricultural Sciences in 1964. He also served as a director of instruction and as principal from 1967 until his retirement in 1971. His studies were influenced by [[Paul DeBach]] and he tended to avoid chemical measures,<ref>{{cite journal|title= G.P. ChannaBasavanna (1920-2000)|year=2000| journal=Current Science| volume=78| issue=11| pages=1390–1391| url=https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_078_11_1390_1391_0.pdf| author1=Mallik, B.| author2=Viraktamath, C.A.}}</ref> favouring biological control and cultural practices in management. He produced one of the first and most influential guides to pest protection for crops written in [[Kannada]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Rao, B.R. Subba|title=History of Entomology in India|publisher=Institution of Agricultural Technologists|year=1998|place=Bangalore|pages=105–106}}</ref>

Along with [[G.P. Channabasavanna]] and others he discovered the existence of the ladybird ''[[Cryptolaemus montrouzieri]]'' in large numbers on ''[[Araucaria]]'' in Bangalore in July 1951 and noted that although it had been introduced in India in 1898 to control mealybugs, it had been recorded as not having established.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Puttarudriah|first1=M.|last2=Channabasavanna|first2=G. P.|last3=Krishna Murti|first3=B.|date=1952|title=Discovery of Cryptolæmus montrouzieri Mulsant (Coccinellidæ, Coleoptera, Insecta) in Bangalore, South India|url=http://www.nature.com/articles/169377a0|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=169|issue=4296|pages=377–378|doi=10.1038/169377a0|pmid=14919577|bibcode=1952Natur.169..377P |s2cid=4147611|issn=0028-0836|url-access=subscription}}</ref> He identified an [[Eriophyidae|eriophyid mite]] causing bunching of leaves in mangoes. The bunchy top symptom had been confused with mango malformation which was also caused by [[Eriophyidae|eriophyid]] mites and noted before by [[M. J. Narasimhan|M.J. Narasimhan]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1= Puttarudriah, M. |author2=Basavanna, G.P. Channa|pages=114–115| journal=Current Science|volume=30| issue=3| year=1961| url=https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_030_03_0114_0115_0.pdf |title=Mango bunchy-top and the eriophyid mite}}</ref> He examined ladybird predators and hymenopteran parasites that could be used in the Mysore region.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1017/S0007485300046617|title=A Study on the Identity of Bracon hebetor Say and Bracon brevicornis Wesmael (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)|year=1956|last1=Puttarudriah|first1=M.|last2=Basavanna|first2=G. P. Channa|journal=Bulletin of Entomological Research|volume=47|pages=183–191}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Puttarudriah, M.|author2=Channabasavanna, G. P. |title=Beneficial coccinellids of Mysore I.| journal=Indian Journal of Entomology |volume=15 |year=1953|pages= 87–96}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Puttarudriah, M.|author2= G. P. Channabasavanna|title=Beneficial coccinellids of Mysore-II.| journal= Indian Journal of Entomology |volume=17 |year=1955|pages= 1–5}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Puttarudriah, M.|author2= B. Krishnamurti|title=Problem of Epilachna control in Mysore. Insecticidal control found inadvisable when natural incidence of parasites is high.| journal= Indian J. Entomol.|volume= 16 |year=1954|pages= 137–141}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Puttarudriah, M.|author2= G. P. Channabasavanna| title=Two giant ladybird beetles predaceous on aphids in Mysore.|journal= Indian J. Entomol.|volume= 14 |year=1952|page= 20}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Viraktamath, C. A.|author2= M. Puttarudriah|author3= G. P. Channa-Basavanna|title=Studies on the biology of rice case-worm, Nymphula depunctalis Guenee (Pyraustidae: Lepidoptera)|journal= Mysore J. Agric. Sci.|volume= 8 |year=1974|pages= 234–241}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author1=Puttarudriah, M.|title=Glimpses of agricultural entomology in Mysore.|journal= Dharwar Agric. Coll. Mag. |volume=11 |year=1958|pages= 8–39}}</ref> In 1955 he made an attempt to list all the known insects and mite species of Mysore state.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Usman, S. |author2=Puttarudriah, M.| year=1955|title= A list of the Insects of Mysore including the mites.| journal= Deptt. Agric. Mysore State Ent. Bull.|volume= 16|pages= 127–135}}</ref>

In 1936, he married Saraswathamma daughter of Hanumanthe Gowda of Torehalli who taught at a school in Gubbi taluk and edited the <nowiki>''Vokkaligara''</nowiki> magazine. They had four daughters.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://archive.org/details/bellekitagalluma0000drmp ಬೆಳೆಕೀಟಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಅವುಗಳ ಹತೋಟಿ (1977)] [The first major Kannada work on crop protection from pests]
** [https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Dr.+M+Puttarudraiah%22 Other editions and extracts]
* [https://archive.org/details/Puttarudraiah Biography (in Kannada)]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Puttarudriah, Magadi}}
[[Category:Indian entomologists]]
[[Category:1903 births]]
[[Category:1983 deaths]]
[[Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni]]
[[Category:Agricultural researchers in India]]

Magadi Puttarudriah - Revision history

Tudu Hommie: Adding some info v1...