NATIONAL BOTANICAL
RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NBRI)
MANDATE
- To carry out
R & D on conservation, improvement, and exploitation of economic plant
including ornamentals.
- To carry out
basic and applied botanical, hortical and related phytochemical research
on plants and plant products.
- To develop production
technologies for new plant sources of commercial importance.
- To collect and
disseminate S & T information.
MAIN FACILITIES
- A wide range
of modern sophisticated equipment/instrument for carrying out work in photosynthesis,
biochemistry, molecular biology and plant tissue culture.
- Several testing
and evaluation facilities, e.g., irradiation of plants and plant material
with gamma rays, plant identification, estimation and analysis of plant
material for proteins, amino acids, oils, fats, active medicinal principles,
gums and mucilages.
- analysis
of herbal drug formulations.Computer facilities with databases on economic
plants and a botanical library.
- Herbarium.
- Botanic gardens.
SIGNIFICANT
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Development
of about 190 new cultivars of 15 well-known ornamental plants.
- Development
of agrotechnologies for commercial cultivation gladiolus spikes and chrysanthemum
flowers.
- Dehydration
of fresh flowers and their employment in floral arts and crafts.
- Modernization
of betel vine cultivation.
- Tissue culture
protocols for a number of ornamental and medicinal plants and forest trees.
- Cottage-scale
cultivation of six edible mushrooms.
- High yielding
and better adaptable strains of opium poppy and grain amarnath.
- Botanical authentication
of over 50 indigenous herbal drugs.
- Identification
of pollution tolerant/resistant plant species, and aquatic plants as bioindicators
of heavy metal pollution.
- Agrotechnology
for the cultivation of German Chamomite, Chamomila recutita on marginal
soils.
- Extraction of
industrial gum form 'Dhanicha', Sesbania aculeata seeds.
- Popular cultivation
in marginal lands.
- Production of
woody biomass on sub-standard soil sites.
- Basic studies
on plant metabolism and the role of calcium and calmodulin in regulating
enzymes of nitrogen metabolism.
- Raising of stable
BT transgenic tobacco plants.
- Demonstration
of polymorphism in the location of several genes in male fertile and sterile
lines of rice and sorghum and a hypothesis suggested for incompatibility
between nuclear and mitochondrial genome.
- About 15 kb
of the populast chloroplast genome fully sequenced.
- Bipartiate genome
of tomato leaf curl virus cloned and sequenced.
- Developed DNA
fingerprinting for amaranthus as a test system for biodiversity
assessment.
- Setting up of
databases on economic plants and providing literature search services.
DIRECTOR
Dr. Sushilkumar
CONTACT ADDRESS
Rana Pratap Marg,
Lucknow, 226 001.
Telephone: (091)522-271031-35,
282879, 282883, 282886.
Telegram : BAGH,
LUCKNOW.
Telex
: 0535-2315 NBG IN.
Fax
: (091)522-282849.
E-mail
: manager @ nbri.sirnetd.ernet.in.
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Botanical Research Institute, Lucknow, 1997.
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