Tissue Culture Laboratory established at NARC in 1982 is known to be the pioneer tissue culture facility in the country with emphasis on pre-basic virus-free potato seed and producing clones of other crops like, date palm, rice, carnation and banana. The laboratory earned a name in production of disease-free potato seed and banana plants. Later, the lab was upgraded and renamed as Plant Biotechnology Program and it was merged with the National Institute for Genomics and Advanced Biotechnology (NIGAB) recently. NIGAB has been strengthened by consolidation of the available expertise presently scattered at National Agricultural Research Centre and foreign qualified scientists in the subject have been pulled from various programs. [more...]

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