|
|
| |
| History |
| |
NBRI is the premier national
plant research center for India under the umbrella of CSIR known
originally as Sikander Bagh, the legendary royal garden of the erstwhile
Oudh kings who ruled the region during the 19th Century before it
was taken over by the British in 1857.
CSIR took over National Botanic Garden in 1953 and expanded the
scope of the institute into multidisciplinary plant research centre
and renamed it as the National Botanical Research Institute in 1978.
NBRI is now an internationally well-known research center in India
and it focuses on both basic and applied aspects of plant sciences.
While working on Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biomass Biology,
Biotechnology, Conservation, Ethnopharmacology, Floriculture, Plant
Physiology, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Molecular Biology &
Genetic Engineering, Natural Product development, etc., it caters
to the need of almost every aspect of plant research in South Asian
region in general and India in particular. Both basic and applied
research programmes in all the above said plant sciences are dealt
by NBRI scientists. The institute offers consultancy and technology
on various aspects of plant sciences including information technology. |
| |
|
