Primary Activities

Contract services

  • Tissue culture, micropropagation and transformation
  • Molecular fingerprinting of micropropagated varieties and segregating populations

Research

  • Development of transformation protocols for recalcitrant specialty and orphan crops
  • Functional gene analysis
  • Development of new strategies for engineering the next generation of GM crops
  • Construction of genetic linkage maps of specialty and orphan crops

Outreach

  • Short and long term training on environmental biosafety of transgenic crops
  • Short and long term training on transformation and marker assisted breeding

 

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