Applied Research (AR)

In House Projects

• Plant Tissue Culture

  • • Development of tissue culture protocols for Banana varieties viz., Grand Naine, Karpooravalli, Nendran, Red Banana and Hill Banana.

• Microbial Endophytes

  • • Isolation and exploitation of "Endophytic Bacteria" for use as Plant Growth Promoters / Bio-control Agents

Externally Funded Projects

• CRISPR-Cas technology

  • • To develop 'Thermo-senstive Genic Male Sterile Lines" in Rice (Project - AR-01)

    • CRISPR-Cas technology will be utilized to develop "Molecular Diagnostic Kits" for detecting economically important pathogens (Project-AR-03)

Plant Tissue Culture

• • • Development of tissue culture protocols for Coconut (Project-AR-02)

• Microbial Endophytes

  • • Exploiting "Endophytic Bacteria" for use as Plant Growth Promoters / Bio-control Agents (Project-AR-03)