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 for Conservation, Kolkata is the country’s – and perhaps the world’s – only research laboratory that receives... read more
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Vrihi's Seed Bank, Asia's largest local ex situ rice gene bank for farmers, will be closed down at Odisha after... read more
Basudha Laboratory has appointed a new research scholar for molecular characterization of hundreds of rice landraces. This scholar will receive... read more
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Dr. Deb will talk at an interactive session on Agrobiodiversity at Swatantryaveer Savarkar Hall, MES Abasaheb Garware College, Pune 411004.... read more
In 2011, the Vrihi rice gene bank shifted to a tribal village in Rayagada district of Odisha, for a wider... read more
