- Include on farm trials, consultancy services, training programmes, symposium, seminarsand publications.
- Technical support to self-help groups to establish TC/ hardening units.
- Biotechnology awareness programmes to school students and farmers
National Symposium & Seminars organized
- National seminar on GM crops prospects and isssues was conducted on 17th & 18th March 2014.
- National seminar on New Frontiers in agricultural Biotechnology was conducted on 3rd March 2015
- NAIP sponsored Training Programme (15 days) on “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture” was organized from May 2nd -16th, 2011.
- NAIP sponsored Training Programme (15 days) on “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture” was organized from May 2nd -16th, 2009.
- National Training on "Techniques and applications of biotechnology to combat climate change" was organized from September 18th -25th, 2009.
- Workshop on "Kerala Biotechnology Policy and Biodiversity Conservation’. ‘GM crops – Food security and environmental integrity" was conducted on April 30, 2009.
- Annual Task Force meeting for Women in Science' was conducted on August 31st - September 1st , 2009.
- Symbiohort – 2005, National Symposium on "Biotechnological Interventions for Improvement of Horticultural Crops – Issues and Strategies" was organized from January10th - 12th, 2005.
Winter School organized
- ICAR sponsored Winter School (21 days) on "Advances in micropropagation of Horticulture Crops" was organized from December 1st - 21st, 2011.
- ICAR sponsored Winter School (21 days) on “Bioinformatics and its Applications in Agriculture” was organized from December1st -21st, 2009.
- ICAR sponsored Winter school (21 days) on "Identification and cloning of defense genes in plants" was organized from January 8th – 28th, 2009.
Trainings Conducted at CPBMB
- Summer training on techniques in Molecular Biology and Plant Tissue Culture was conducted from 10th – 30th June 2013.
- Sponsored training by Planning Board, GoK. Two month training programme on Micropropogation of banana was conducted from 2nd December 2013 to 31st January 2014.
- Sponsored training by Planning Board, GoK. Two month training programme on Hardening Micropropogated banana was conducted from 3rd January 2014 to 28th February 2014.
- ICAR sponsored training on techniques in Proteomics & Genomics for Crop Improvement was conducted from 24th - 28th March 2014.
- Hands on training on Techniques in Molecular Biology was conducted from 16th – 30th June 2014.
- Hands on training on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology was conducted from 10th – 24th July 2014.
- Hands on training on Micropropogation of banana for Enterpreneurship Development was conducted from 22nd – 29th January 2015.
- Centre of Excellence training was conducted from 23rd – 29th March 2015.
- Training on Plant Tissue Culture and Applications was conducted from 11th – 30th May 2015.
- Training on Tools and Techniques in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics was conducted from 18th May - 2nd June 2015.
- Hands on training in Techniques in Molecular Biology was conducted from 15th – 30th June 2015.
- Hands on training on Plant Tissue Culture and Applications was conducted from 29th June - 22nd July 2015.
- Vocational training on Micropropogation for Entrepreneurship Development was conducted from 1st October – 31st December 2015.
- Hands on training on Micropropogation for Entrepreneurship Development was conducted from 1st March – 31st May 2016.
- Training on techniques in Molecular Biology and Plant Tissue Culture was conducted from 13th – 25th March 2017.
- Training on Techniques in Molecular Biology and Plant Tissue Culture was conducted from 19th May – 2nd June 2017.
Books Released
- Molecular Profiling of Piper Species,
- Biotech Research in KAU
- Recent Trends in Horticultural Biotechnology – Vol I & Vol II
- Plant Biotechnology - Methods in Tissue Culture and Gene Transfer
Awards
- Biotech process, product development and commercialization award 2003 (Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India)
- Dr. H.S. Mehta Memorial national awards 2003 and 2006
- Jawaharlal Nehru awards 1997 and 2007
- NAAS Associateship
Review & Monitoring
- National level advisory and monitoring committees to evaluate EAPs
- Institutional Biosafety Committee for rDNA research
Recognitions
- Co-ordinating centre for
- DBT funded multi institutional project on spices
- Biotech HRD in Kerala
- Membership in DBT Taskforce, National Bioresource Development Board, University Syndicates & Board of Studies
Sales & Recepts
- Tissue culture derived quality planting materials of banana, black pepper, anthurium, orchids, curry leaf, medicinal plants etc. in revolving fund mode Biofertilisers and biocontrol agents
Future Programs
- Scaling up & commercialization of in vitro regeneration protocols
- Refinement of protocols for regeneration of recalcitrant crops
- Genomics, transcriptomics and proteomics for exploitation of genes coding for desirable traits
- Linkage mapping & marker assisted selection for stress tolerance and quality
- Transgenics for biotic and abiotic stress tolerance
- Molecular profiling and utilization of under exploited high value microbes.
- Bioprospection and metabolome analysis
- To serve as a Centre of Excellence in Biotechnology
