Mandayam Jeersannidhi Narasimhan (1 July 1891 – 24 September 1970Indian Academy of Sciences
/ref>) was a pioneering Indian plant pathologist and mycologist who worked in the state of Mysore. Narasimhan was born in Madras in a family of scholars, with a grandfather who had collaborated with Max Müller. Narasimhan went to the

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, studying botany under P.F. Fyson, and was also influenced by his cousin M.O.P. Iyengar. He joined as an assistant mycologist under

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in 1913 in Mysore. He was involved in the studies of ''koleroga'' of arecanut. He also studied ''Hemileia vastatrix'' and its control in coffee. He retired in 1946 as director of agriculture in Mysore. A son, M.J. Thirumalachar also took to mycology and along with him he studied '' Sclerospora'' mildews and described the new genus '' Sclerophthora''. The genera '' Narasimhania'' (

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) and ''

Narasimhella ''Narasimhella'' is a genus of fungi in the family Gymnoascaceae. The genus name of ''Narasimhella'' is in honour of Mandayam Jeersannidhi Narasimhan (1891–1970), who was a pioneering Indian plant pathologist and mycologist who worked in the s ...

'' (

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) and the several species including '' Tilletia narasimhanii'', '' Burrillia narasimhanii'', '' Physoderma narasimhanii'', and '' Cercospora narasimhanii'' have been named after him. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1935.

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Indian Phytopathological Society
{{DEFAULTSORT:Narasimhan, Mandayam Jeerasannidhi Indian phytopathologists 1891 births 1970 deaths People from Chennai Indian mycologists Fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences Agricultural researchers in India 20th-century agronomists