Basudha Lab regenerated a few seedlings using tissue culture method from seeds of the last specimen of Vitex glabrata, that existed in a roadside sacred grove in Chhandar village of Bankura district of West Bengal. Some villagers cut down this Critically Endangered tree in March 2016. The first seedling was successfully transplanted in Kerandiguda village, near Basudha farm, on November 18, 2016.
Basudha Laboratory has appointed a new research scholar for molecular characterization of hundreds of rice landraces. read more
Topic: Discovering Michelangelo's The Last Judgment : post-restoration.Speaker: Debal Deb01 June 2025 4 - 7 pmat IBRAD Seminar... read more
Vrihi's Seed Bank, Asia's largest local ex situ rice gene bank for farmers, will be closed down at Odisha after... read more
Sri Debjeet Sarangi, the Foounder and head of Living Farms, Odisha’s leading organization to fight for agrobiodiversity conservation and indigenous... read more
In 2011, the Vrihi rice gene bank shifted to a tribal village in Rayagada district of Odisha, for a wider... read more
Basudha Laboratory for Conservation, Kolkata is the country’s – and perhaps the world’s – only research laboratory that receives... read more
Students who need advanced laboratory amenities to fulfil their dissertation requirements may work with Basudha’s Biotechnology Laboratory for Conservation in Kolkata. <a... read more
