Plant Breeding and Genetics

UG Lab (Undergraduate lab)

The UG lab of the department of genetics & Plant Breeding is the hub for teaching the practical aspects of Genetics, Cytology, Plant Breeding and Seed Technology to undergraduate students. The range of practical classes covered include mitosis, meiosis, pollen viability estimation, floral biology and hybridization techniques of various crops like cereals, pulses, oil seeds, vegetables, fruits and plantation crops etc. The seed testing and evaluation experiments includes physical purity analysis, germination test, seed viability test, moisture content estimation etc.  The laboratory is well maintained with various dissection and compound microscopes, hot air oven, germinator, purity analysis board, seed divider, refrigerators, pH and EC meters, digital seed moisture meter etc and has all the necessary infrastructure to support the above mentioned practical teaching experiments.

PG Lab (Postgraduate lab)

The Postgraduate lab under Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics is for exclusive use by M.Sc and  PhD students of the department and faculty research programme. It features a binocular microscope attached with laptop system for imaging, a deep freezer for storing the chemicals and molecular mixtures, laminar air flow chamber, PCR machine, gel electrophoresis unit etc. The lab is well spaced for carrying out the laboratory observations and experiments during practical classes and research work.