RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME:

The institute is actively involved in research and faculty development programme in addition to regular course curriculum.

ONGOING RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Plant Biotechnology:

Conservation strategies for improved, rare, high valued medicinal and aromatic plants through tissue culture.

Study on control of genetic instability of cultured tissue for maintaining genetic uniformity in long term culture.

Genetic diversity analysis of promising cultivars of turmeric, ginger and lemongrass using molecular marker (RAPD, Microsattelite, ISSR), cytological marker (chromosome analysis) and biochemical marker (curcumin, oleoresin and essential oil content).

Molecular characterization in turmeric and ginger for developing molecular marker for high curcumin, high oleoresin and high oil yielding genotypes.

In vitro mutagenesis for enhancing yield, quality and disease resistance in turmeric.

Enhancement of size of micro-rhizome in turmeric and ginger for improving rhizome yield of tissue culture derived plants in field.

Pharmaceutical Biotechnology:

In vitro toxin tolerance in turmeric and ginger using microbial culture filtrate aiming to increase disease resistance.

Study of anti-microbial activity of extracts of phytochemical important medicinal plants.

Evaluation and optimization of bio-sorption potential of microbial biomass of industrial importance.

Pharmacology

Phytochemical investigations of medicinally active compound from plant sources.

Development of “New Drug Molecules” from plant sources for various diseases and metabolic disorders like Diabetes, Epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, Cancer, Neuroprotection, etc.

Pharmaceutics

Formulation development employing Nanotechnology, sustained release and micro-encapsulation technology etc.

SPONSORED PROJECT from Department of Biotechnology (DBT) New Delhi , Govt. of India .

Title - ‘Assessment of genetic diversity in the genus Zingiber (Zingiberceae) using different molecular markers and in-vitro conservation of some rare and economically important taxa'

Fund Sanctioned - Rs.25,00,000/ -(Twenty five lakhs rupees only), two junior research fellows (JRF) are working under this project. Very recently this department has also required a project grant from DST, New Delhi with sanctioned amount Rs.17 lakhs.