Senior Lecturer Grade I
BSc Agri (Hons) (Peradeniya), PhD (SCAU)Department of Agricultural and Plantation Engineering
Faculty of Engineering Technology
RG GS
Contact:
, Colombo
Office: 0112881089, Ext: 589
E-mail: agbar@ou.ac.lk
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Areas of Specialization:Plant protection, Biotechnology
Research interests:Investigating the application of tropical plant extracts on pathogen and plant-insect pests controlling
Application of nanotechnology in plant protection
Programme Coordination:
Course Coordination:
AGX3201 – Basic Biology, AGI3551 – Agricultural biology, AGI3553 – Plant Protection, AGI5569 – Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, AGI5572 – Fisheries and Aquaculture (Coordinator only), AGI6585- Applications in Biotechnology, AGI6486 – Field and Laboratory applications of Plant protection
Awards:Best Research Paper award of the Annual Congress of the Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, 2009
Session Best award of Biotechnology and It’s applications in the Annual Congress of the Post Graduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya,
2009.
Won the bronze medal for the ” A process of producing a cross, linked cellulose and
the Acrylic Acid grafted super absorbent copolymer using a domestic Microwave Oven
or agricultural application” at the ‘Sahasak Nimavum 2018’, National Invention and
innovation exhibition organized by the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission (SLIC).
Aruggoda, A.G.B., Xiang R. S., Bao-Li Qiu (2010). Molecular Phylogeny of Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) Inferred from Mitochondrial 16S rDNA Sequences. Tropical Agricultural Research. Vol. 21(2): 209 – 217.
Fernando, T. N., Aruggoda A. G. B., Disanayaka, C. K. and Kulathunge, S. (2013). Effect of Super Water Absorbent Polymer and Watering Capacity on Growth of Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill). Journal of Engineering Technology, Faculty of Engineering Technology, The Open University of Sri Lanka.
Dissanayake, D. M. P. S., Tennakone, D.,C., Wijethilake, L. C. and Aruggoda, A. G. B. (2014). Efficiency of controlling Root knot Nematodes in Gotukola (Centella asiatica L.) using Trichoderma enriched compost. Annals of Sri Lanka
Department of Agriculture. 2014. 16:327 – 329.
Fernando, T. N., Ariadurai, S. A., Aruggoda A. G. B., Disanayaka, C. K. and Kulathunge, S. (2016). Evaluation of Microwave Assisted Alkaline Pretreatment for Extraction of Cellulose from Selected Lignocellulosic Materials. Journal of Engineering and Technology of the Open University of Sri Lanka (JET-OUSL), Vol. 4, No.1, pp 36 – 51.
Fernando, T. N., Ariadurai, S. A., Aruggoda A. G. B., Disanayaka, C. K. and Kulathunge, S. (2016). Evaluation of Microwave Assisted Alkaline Pretreatment for Extraction of Cellulose from Selected Lignocellulosic Materials. Journal of Engineering and Technology of the Open University of Sri Lanka (JET-OUSL), Vol. 4, No.1, pp 36 – 51.
K. N. K. Sharma and A. G. B. Aruggoda. Effect of seed inoculated Rhizobium
over inorganic fertilizer and organic fertilizer on growth and seed germination of
cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) accepted by the International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research for the September 2017 volume.
Welideniya, W. A., Rienzie, K. D. R. C., Wickramaarachchi, W. A. R. T., & Aruggoda,
A. G. B. (2019). Characterization of fungal pathogens causing anthracnose in capsicum
pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) and their seed borne nature. Ceylon Journal of Science, 48(3), 261–269. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/cjs.v48i3.7650
Aruggoda A. G. B. and Shun-Xiang Ren, 2022. Nuclear Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 (ITS1) variation in Lady Bird Beetles (Coccinellidae). bioRxiv 2022.05.11.491562; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.05.11.491562.
Patents
A patent was received in 2017 for “A process of producing a cross-linked cellulose and acrylic acid grafted super absorbent copolymer using a domestic microwave oven for agricultural applications” OUSL.