Mysore/Mysuru: The city’s well-known Agri-Scientist Dr. Vasanth Kumar Thimakapura, popularly known as Plant Doctor, has been invited to present his innovation at the annual conference of American Phytopathological Society to be held from July 26 to 28 at Memphis, TN, USA.

 He will be presenting his research product POWER PLUS which has proved its ability to cure the viral diseases of many crops, especially the Papaya Ring Spot Virus (PRSV) disease. He has proved to the world that this product has the ability to cure even the virus infected plants which is first-of-its-kind.

Further, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) top virologist Dr. William Wintermantel has shown interest to conduct trials of this product on many fruits and vegetable crops in USA.  Dr. Thimakapura will also visit his laboratory in California and discuss about the collaborative research work on Power Plus.

Farm (x), a private organisation in California, has also invited Dr. Thimakapura to conduct collaborative work on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in farm automation in crop disease diagnosis and management.

Dr. Thimakapura will play a key role in identification of deficiencies, diseases and insect pest using his four decades of knowledge to feed the information on to AI system.