Facilities

Complete list of facilities is as follows:

Plant Growth Facilities

• Hi-tech greenhouse
• Net house
• Plant growth chamber

Microbial Culture Facility

• Autoclaves
• Laminar air flow chambers
• Environmental shakers
• Anaerobic glove chamber
• Anaerobic incubators
• Biosafety cabinet
• Electronic colony counters
• Compound microscope with digital imaging facility
• Phase contrast and fluorescence microscope
• Incinerator

Plant Tissue Culture Facility

• Laminar air flow chamber
• Stereozoom microscope
• Plant growth chamber

Biochemistry / Molecular Biology / Bioinformatics Facility

• Electronic balance
• Circulating water bath
• Colorimeter
• Spectrophotometer - UV
• Table top ice maker
• Plant sample grinder
• Tissue grinder for DNA extraction
• Benchtop refrigerated centrifuge / microfuges
• Deep freezers (-20°c / -40°c / -80°c)
• Elisa multimode microplate reader
• Gradient PCR machine
• Real time PCR
• Electrophoresis units for DNA and protein analyses
• Gel documentation unit
• Hybridization oven
• Water purification system
• Workstations / Linux server for genome data analyses
• Analytical Facility
• IR digester
• Fume hood
• Vacuum concentrator
• Rotary evaporator
• Spectrophotometer- UV - VIS – NIR
• X-ray fluorescence analyser
• Amino acid analyser
• Gas Chromatography – Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
• Freeze drier - Lyophilizer

Food science research

• Rice milling meter
• Retort packaging machine
• De huller with grader polisher
• Destoner for small millets