The institute has a well-established seed bank in order to facilitate ex-situ conservation of forestry seeds. In the perspective of biodiversity conservation and to conduct storage trials on seeds the seed bank is equipped with three walk-in store cool chambers for large-scale storage facility. A deep freezer and a refrigerator also serve as storagedevices for maintaining very low temperature ranges upto -5 degree C.

It is provided with equipments such as Gravity Separator, Ro-tap sieve shaker with test-sieves and Dacota type seed blower which help in seed cleaning and grading of various seed types. Sampling devices namely Boerner Sampler and Sample Divider aid in reducing the size of seed composite sample into submitted and working samples.

The seed bank also hosts a carpellarium that guides identification of different forest seeds originating from diverse forest types and helps in purity analysis.

Seed Processing Centre

Seeds are processed, extracted, graded and tested for their germination

FGRM Nursery

The FGR species are vegetatively multiplied using stem cuttings or grafting and seedlings are raised in mother beds and maintained until field planting

Characterization lab

The FGR species are characterized for active principles and molecular markers aid conservation.

Documentation lab

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