Rice:- Development of lodging tolerant, disease and insect resistant hybrids with suitable grain quality and growth duration for Punjab conditions.
- Development of less water requiring (aerobic) rice genotypes.
- Development of semi-dwarf high yielding bacterial blight resistant basmati rice varieties possessing extra-long slender grains with strong aroma and excellent cooking/eating quality characteristics for export.
- Development of high yielding lodging tolerant non-basmati varieties with multiple disease and insect pest resistance, abiotic stress tolerance (submergence, salinity) and possessing acceptable grain quality and suitable crop duration
- Generation of appropriate production technologies through applied research for increasing and sustaining productivity and income from rice and rice-based cropping systems with special emphasis on labour and water saving.
- Study on the occurrence and epidemiology of major rice diseases.
Wheat- Development of high yielding varieties through exploitation of diverse germplasm
- Incorporation of diverse resistance genes against stripe and leaf rust besides Kernel bunt
- Genetic improvement for nutritional and processing quality, improvement for heat tolerance and water use efficiency
- Development of export purpose durum wheat varieties and development of malt and feed purpose barley varieties
Cotton - Development of higher yielding American cotton Bt cultivars with high fibre strength
- Development of American cotton varieties suitable for high density planting system and mechanical picking
- Development of desi cotton varieties with shattering tolerance
- Pre-breeding in American cotton for the introgression of resistance/tolerance to cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) and sucking insect pests
Sugarcane - Development of high cane and sugar yield improved varieties with inbuilt resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses having more profitable values and wider adaptation
- Exploring new possibilities of value addition to sugarcane crop
- Best Management Practices (BMPs) encompassing sugarcane production and protection technologies that can enhance sustainable sugarcane production and productivity
Oilseeds - Development of high yielding, biotic and abiotic stress tolerant/resistant varieties and hybrids
- Specialty hybrids in canola rapeseed-mustard and sunflower
- Determinate, short duration, shattering tolerant varieties of rapeseed-mustard
- Dual purpose canola (oil and fodder)
- Confectionery purpose sesame and groundnut
Pulses - Development of early maturing and high yielding varieties of mungbean, urdbean, soybean and early maturing varieties/CMS based hybrids in pigeonpea
- Development of high yielding desi, bold seeded kabuli chickpea and lentil varieties coupled with resistance to various diseases
- Development of agronomy of new genotypes and effective weed management with herbicides and interculture
- Exploiting microbial diversity for efficient Rhizobia and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) for development of bioinoculants consortia
- Development of effective protection technologies
Maize - To develop high-yielding, long-duration, waterlogging-tolerant maize hybrids tailored for Kharif production environments.
- To breed climate-resilient maize combining resistance/tolerance to major biotic and abiotic stresses relevant to Punjab and the north-western plains.
- To accelerate trait-oriented improvement using doubled haploids, marker-assisted selection, genomic selection, and speed-breeding pipelines.
- To develop high-density planting–tolerant hybrids with enhanced nutrient-use efficiency and optimised fertiliser responses.
- To strengthen specialty maize programmes (QPM, waxy, sweet, high-starch, high-oil) and advance biofortification for superior nutritional quality.
- To enhance water-use efficiency in spring maize through breeding and integration of resource-conserving technologies.
- To develop superior fodder and silage varieties/hybrids with high biomass yield, and digestibility.
- To upgrade grain and end-use quality profiles (food, feed, starch, ethanol) aligned with industry specifications and farmer marketability.
- To utilise wild relatives, landraces, and exotic germplasm to introgress alleles for priority nutritional, biotic and abiotic stress tolerances.
Forage Crops - Germplasm enhancement in the forage crops and grain bajra
- To breed varieties of forage crops having low anti-quality components and inbuilt resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses
- To breed quick growing water use efficient varieties of forage sorghum and bajra having high regenerability for multicut to increase the total forage production
- Development of erect type varieties of cowpea to increase the area under cowpea as fodder crop
- Integrated nutrient management, weed management and reduction of anti-nutritional components through agronomic manipulations
- Management of insects-pests and diseases of all forage crops Development of high grain yielding hybrids having inbuilt resistance against biotic and abiotic stresses
- Development of dual purpose bajra varieties/hybrids
- Development of new CMS lines having diversified CMS sources
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