| Institute projects completed as Pricipal Investigator | |
|---|---|
| 1 | True cassava seed programme for to develop homozygous superior progenies |
| 2 | Collection, conservation, cataloguing and evaluation of sweet potato germplasm |
| 3 | Isolation and characterization of stress responsive genes in cassava |
| 4 | Marker Aided Selection for CMD resistance using Association Mapping |
| 5 | Varietal improvement in cassava for cassava mosaic disease resistance, yield and quality. |
| 6 | Breeding early maturing, weevil resistant, high starch, high carotene orange-fleshed sweet potato (OFSP) lines for consumption and industrial application |
| 7 | Collection, conservation, cataloguing and evaluation of minor tuber crops germplasm |
| 8 | Identification of marker linked to high starch in cassava, dwarfing gene in white yam and pyramiding of genes for cassava mosaic disease (CMD) resistance |
| Institute projects being handled | |
| 1 | Map based cloning of CMD resistant gene(s) & identification of markers associated with drought tolerance and high starch content in cassava |
| 2 | Phenomics approaches for physiological trait-based breeding for drought and PPD tolerance in cassava |
| Externally project completed | |
| 1 | Isolation of differentially expressing genes in CMD resistance parent (MNga1) by suppression subtractive Hybridization (SSH) using cDNA library (PI) (DBT project) |
| 2 | Evaluation of orange-fleshed sweet potato and mapping of genetic loci associated with β-carotene (DRDO, LSRB project) |
| 3 | International Network for Edible Aroids (INEA): Adapting Clonally Propagated Crops to Climatic and Commercial Change. (European Union project) |