Laboratories

The Institute houses state of art laboratories to cater to the needs of different research mandates. Biotechnology Lab is equipped with Tissue Culture Facility, Plant Hardening and Establishment Unit, Insect Bioassay Facility.

Biotechnology Unit has around 1000 square feet inoculation room cum tissue culture facility. It has six horizontal laminar flow enabling to work for 12 people at a time. Culture rooms have total thirty culture trolleys to accommodate in vitro materials from chickpea, pigeonpea and Vigna crops.

Crop Physiology and biochemistry and Microbiology (CPBM) Labs is equipped with an advanced powerful stress monitoring system called Chlorophyll fluorescene imaging system enabling to monitor photosynthesis in plants under different abiotic stresses. Based on imaging patterns, the precise diagnosis of plant activities under stress can be made. The image patterns keep changing with the level of stress. The response of different genotypes to stress can be accessed through interpretating the images and colour codes.

A CO₂ Growth chamber has also been created to monitor response of different pulses to CO₂ enrichment coupled with high temperature and drought. The Growth chamber is equipped with microprocessor unit which controls humidity, light, photoperiod, temperature and CO₂ as per users’ defined programme. Besides these, the Lab also has a plant canopy analyser for leaf area index and other growth analysis.