| S.No. | ICAR Funded Projects | Principal Investigator |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Network Program on Precison Agriculture (NePPA) | Dr. I. Ravi |
| 2 | Agri-Business Incubation (ABI) Centre | Dr. K.N. Shiva |
| 3 | Utilization of banana wastes for the development of symbiotic & designer foods through pre-pro-biotic approaches and to enhance the farmer's income | P. Suresh Kumar |
| 4 | Development of smart foods, bio-composites, green packaging and bio-energy from agroresidues | Dr. P. Suresh Kumar |
| 5 | Intellectual property management and Transfer / Commercialisation of Agricultural technology | Dr. P. Suresh kumar |
| 6 | All India Co-ordinated project on Fruits (Banana) | Dr. V.Kumar |
| 7 | Consortia Research Platform on Vaccines and Diagnostics - Development and utilization of diagnostics to viruses of banana | Dr. R. Selvarajan |
| 8 | Sub Mission on Agricultural Mechanization for implementations of its component no.1 under Drone technology demonstration (SMAM) | Dr. C.Karpagam |
| S.No. | Foreign Funded Projects | Principal Investigator |
| 1 |
A1553-CGIAR fund INIT-03 - Conservation and use of genetic resource (gene banks)
Study – I : Regional workshop on Phenotyping of bananas for drought tolerance Study – II : Evaluation of ITC genotypes for their reaction to FoC R1 and TR4 Study – III : Status of adoption behaviour of ITC accessions in India under the banana production system and the constraint analysis in the dissemination process |
Dr.I. Ravi Dr.R. Thangavelu Dr.C. Karpagam |
| 2 | A1555 - INIT-13- Plant health and rapid response to protect food security and livelihoods | Dr.R. Thangavelu |
| S.No. | Other Externally Funded Projects | Principal Investigator |
| 1 | Establishment of banana macropropagation units in Tiruchirappalli district, capacity building and improvement of livelihood opportunities of farmers | Dr. S. Uma |
| 2 |
Development and transfer of technology from Queensland University of Technology to India for Bio fortification and disease resistance in banana (Phase II) - Biofortification and development of disease resistance banana
Component-1 - Transfer and evaluation of Indian banana with Pro-Vitamin-A (PVA) constructs Component-2: Transfer and evaluation of Indian bananas with iron constructs () |
Dr. S. Backiyarani Dr. M. Mayil vaganan |
| 3 | High – throughput Screening for induced mutations in banana cv. Grand Naine (AAA) with Fusarium wilt (TR4) resistance (Phase III) | Dr. M.S. Saraswathi |
| 4 | Framing Crop Specific DUS guidelines for banana | Dr. M.S. Saraswathi |
| 5 | Gene editing for Fusarium Wilt resistance in banana (Grand Naine, AAA) | Dr. C. Anuradha |
| 6 | Banana sakthi nanoformulation – Effective delivery systems of the micronutrient mixture for improved banana cultivation | Dr. K.J. Jeyabaskaran |
| 7 | Design, Development and Validation of Online Banana Trading platform for farmers of FPOs in Tiruchirapalli District | Dr. P. Suresh kumar |
| 8 | Establishment of common incubation centre (CIC) | Dr. P. Suresh kumar |
| 9 | Efforts towards the development of Fusarium wilt resistance in banana using CRISPR/ Cas9 | Dr. Jeyabharathy Chandrasekaran |
| 10 | Induced polyploidy: A tool to improve sterile bananas | Dr. S. Kalpana |