Plant and Agricultural Biotechnology Department

  • Plant Tissue Culture Lab
  • Field Lab & Quality Lab
  • Horticulture Lab

Plant Tissue Culture Lab

  1. To become the most valued and successful suppliers of agricultural biotechnology products affordable to local growers in our country
  1. To wider agricultural sector through plant tissue culture technique
  2. To conserve germplasm maintenance of economic and ecological importance plant species
  1. Multiplication of various banana varieties (khun wah, shwe ni, phee gyan, hnet pyar, watmalut) to produce true-to-type mother plants
  2. Propagation of the two types of Anthurium in vitro and hardening off the cultured plantlets
  3. Propagation of the two types of Anthurium in vitro and hardening off the cultured plantlets
  4. Examination of Bamboo seed germination and micropropagation in vitro with different media concentrations
  5. In vitro Clonal Propagation of Aloe vera
  6. Cultural maintenance of Economically Important Medicinal and Horticultural Plants
  7. In Vitro Micropropagation of Good Quality Strawberry Plantlets through Tissue Culture Technique
  8. Efficient Regeneration of Dragon Fruit (Hylocereus undatus)

 

Process of Plant Tissue Culture (Anthurium)
Process of Plant Tissue Culture (Anthurium)
Banana Micropropagation
Banana Micropropagation

Field Lab & Quality Lab

” Searching and Serving for the Best “

  1. To provide professional education on plant resource management (HRD)
  2. To perform researches on crop varieties management for sustainable agriculture
  3. To adopt sophisticated techniques for better soil, water and nutrient management practices
  4. To become advance in science and technology in the area of plant breeding and biotechnology
  1. Plant Breeding and Biotechnology
  2. Agricultural Soil, Water and Nutrient Management
  3. Climate Smart Agricultural Practices
Mutation Breeding
Mutation Breeding
Rice Breeding under the Field
Rice Breeding under the Field
Best Research Award (2017)

     SUCCESS 

  1. Early Maturity Mutant Rice Variety
  2. Best Research Award (2017)

Horticulture Lab

  1. Application of Mutation Technology and Tissue Culture Technique for the Improvement of Crop Quality and yield production
  1. To find out climate change tolerant mutant variety for sustainable production by using gamma radiation or EMS
  2. To improve crop quality and yield by using gamma radiation
  3. To produce and distribute multiple plantlets by in vitro culture

  1. Improving Sustainable Cotton Production through Enhanced Resilience to Climate Change (IAEA/RAS/ 5/075)

  2. Improvement of Sugarcane using Gamma irradiation and large-Scale Plantlet Production in Vitro culture

  3. Gamma Irradiation Treatment on In Vitro Cultures of Orchid

Selection of Mutant Lines by International Experts
Selection of Mutant Lines by International Experts
Group photo of RAS 5/075 cotton mutation breeding project
Group photo of RAS 5/075 cotton mutation breeding project