Mandate
Undertaking basic and applied research on various aspects of plant science, including documentation, systematics, conservation, prospection and genetic improvement with particular emphasis on under-exploited, non-traditional and wild plant genetic resources of the country for sustainable development and human welfare.
Core Strength
- Plant diversity, systematics and databases
- Bioprospection and product development
- Botanic garden, plant conservation, and development of new varieties of floricultural plants
- Microbes for enhanced plant productivity
- Pollution remediation through plants and microbes
- Climate change adaptation and carbon sequestration
- Plant improvement through conventional and molecular breeding, and genetic engineering
- Agro-technologies for sustainable development of sodic and shifting cultivation lands
- Societal development activities through outreach programmes
