National Botanical Research Institute
From Indian Science Information
National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) is the premier national center for plant research in India. Originally it was set up as the National Botanic Gardens (NBG) by the State Government of Uttar Pradesh. 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 focuses on both basic and applied aspects of plant sciences.
Research
The research areas covers Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biomass Biology, Biotechnology, Conservation, Ethnopharmacology, Floriculture, Plant Physiology, Genetics & Plant Breeding, Molecular Biology & Genetic Engineering, Natural Product development. Both basic and applied research programmes in all the above plant sciences are dealt by NBRI scientists. The institute offers consultancy and technology on various aspects of plant sciences including information technology.
Location
National Botanical Research Institute, NBRI is located at Rana Pratap Marg, Lucknow-226 001, U.P.
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