The author has no words to describe his indebtedness to M/S Sophia
Publishers, British Columbia, Canada, for their immense help in giving
this opportunity of writing this book “Rice Brown Planthopper- a Global
Scenario”. The constant guidance, help, encouragement and inspiration
given by Daniel Z. Smith and support and help by Annie Nyu are very
gratefully acknowledged.
The author is for ever grateful to his wife N. Varalakshmi, brother-in law
T. Jayaram and his wife Indiramma, along with his parents and uncle, his
advisor Dr R. L. Kalra and his wife Rama Devi who immensely helped when
he was seriously ill during 1977.
The author is always thankful to his children Harathi, Srikanth, Supriya,
son-in-law Naveen Kumar, daughter-in-law Hima Bindu for their support
and timely help on many occasions and he expresses his love and affection
to his grandchildren Sonika, Srihitha and Srinika.
The author expresses his gratefulness to his advisor Dr R. L. Kalra
who taught the importance of whole-hearted involvement in research,
standardization in experimentation and objectivity in reporting, that served
as a base throughout his research career.
The author expresses his thankfulness to all his friends and colleagues with
whom he had association during his entire scientific career spanning over
48 years. Notable among them are Drs E.A.Siddiq, K.Krishnaiah, B.Mishra,
B.C.Viraktamath,V.Ravindra Babu, P. R. M. Rao, S. M. Zaheeruddeen, N. R.
G. Varma, I.C. Pasalu, J.S.Prasad, J.S.Bentur, G.R.Katti, V. Jhansi Lakshmi,
A.P.Padmakumari, Ch. Padmavathi, Chitra Shankar Mr.A.S.Rama Prasad,
Mr. Y. Kondal Rao,, Mr.T. Venkaiah and Late M. B. Kalode and Late Y. F.
Kormaty.
The author many a time attempted to copy or modify the data published in
different journals. He expresses his indebtedness to all of them.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
