 He is the Project Director of the All India Wheat program and author of more than 120 research papers, 50 book chapters and two textbooks.Nagarajan, who is internationally respected as a wheat pathologist, has been recognized with the Borlaug award recently for his contribution to the advancement of the wheat program, pathology of wheat rusts and its elimination, and as an educator.He joined the IARI / ICAR in 1974 as wheat pathologist.