Prof A subhranayam obtained his Ph D degree from Pune University, Pune and D.Sc from kumaun University, Nainital in Applied Mycology. He reported a large number of fungi new to science and are available at different international type culture collections centers as ATCC in USA, CMI in UK and MTCC in India. He is considered as an authority on fungi. He is known for industrial strain improvement and has the credit of developing and completing industrial projects in record time. He has published good numbers of research paper and also popular science articles. At many occasion he spokes on AIR.