Projects

Completed Schemes 2025-2026
  1. Novel application of sugarcane vacuolar targeting technology for recombinant protein (BIRAC)
  2. Artificial intelligence powered diagnostic kit for real-time monitoring of nematode pests of sugarcane. (TARE -DST-SERB)
  3. Healthy seed production and mechanization of sugarcane agriculture-A farmer’s participatory initiative (RKVY Haryana)
  1. Identification, characterisation and verification of new sugarcane varieties for DUS testing at Coimbatore (PPV&FRA)
  2. CRISPR – Crop Network – Targeted improvement of stress tolerance, nutritional quality and yield of crops by using genome editing (NASF)
  3. Improving tillering and yield in sugarcane through creating novel alleles of strigolactone biosynthesis gene MAX4-1 using CRISPR / CAS9 (DBT)
  4. Deciphering the genetic basis of root-system architecture developing climate resilient sugarcane (BRNS)
  5. Identification and characterization of SWEET genes associated with sugar content and disease susceptibility in sugarcane (DST-SERB)
  6. Targeted genome editing in sugarcane: CRISPR/Cas9-mediated lignin modification towards lignocellulosic biofuel production
  7. Development of genome consortium databank from plants and microbial population emerging from India (DBT-NNP)
  8. Genome editing in sugarcane for improve yield, quality, biotic stress tolerance and biomass modification for biofuel production” (Under the Central Sector Scheme Crop Science for Food and Nutritional Security, Sub-scheme: Enhancing climate resilience and ensuring food security with genome editing tools) (ICAR-EFC)
  9. Transgene free genome editing in sugarcane and banana (DBT)
  10. Agriculture Drone Project (funded by ICAR Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Hyderabad) under Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization: Drone Technology Demonstration
  11. Promoting sustainable sugarcane production through natural farming practices
  12. Competitive Research Grants (CRG) Scheme under National Mission on Natural farming (NMNF)
  13. Identification of salt tolerant sugarcane clones for commercial cultivation in Haryana (RKVY Haryana)
  14. ICAR-CRP on Development and application of diagnostics to viruses and phytoplasmas infecting sugarcane
  15. Mechanized priming of planting material and technology popularization for revival of sugarcane productivity in Tamil Nadu (RKVY)
  16. Decoding the molecular events of PAMP-triggered immunity (PTI) by unlocking the interactome of the PAMP-CfEPL1 of Colletotrichum falcatum during interaction with sugarcane (DST-SERB)
  17. Development of onsite field diagnostics to sugarcane grassy shoot disease Candidatus phytoplasma sacchari by RPA-LFD method to ensure healthy seed chain and sustain sugar production (DST-SERB)
  18. Red rot resistance in sugarcane by genome editing of LOX3 gene under All India Network Program (AINP) on biotech crops
  19. Dissemination of technology on mechanized priming of planting material for sustainable sugarcane agriculture (NFSM)
  20. Impact of climate change on crambid borers of sugarcane and ways of mitigation (DST-SERB-TARE)
  21. Sugarcane based Agri-Business Incubator (ABI) (National Agricultural Innovation Fund Scheme (NAIF)- Component II, IP & TM, ICAR)
  22. Intellectual Property Management and Technology Transfer/ Commercialization – Institute Technology Management Unit (ITMU) (National Agricultural Innovation Fund Scheme (NAIF) – Component I, IP & TM, ICAR)
  23. Network project “Production systems, Agribusiness and Institutions” NAIP-Component1: Impact assessment of agricultural technology
  24. Identification, characterization and verification of new sugarcane varieties for DUS testing (PPV&FRA)
  25. ICAR Seed project – Seed production in agricultural crops and fisheries – sugarcane (RFS, Karnal)
  26. Identification of climate resilient drought tolerant sugarcane varieties suitable for Haryana state (RKVY Haryana)
  27. DUS testing of sugarcane (Agali) (PPV&FRA)