No. of Ph.Ds produced from the department  : 100

Research leading to Ph.D. is carried out in the areas of 

• Molecular Biology
• Plant Tissue Culture
• Microbiology
• Plant Metabolites and phytochemical substances including their biochemical pathways
• Environmental Biology
• Plant Pathology
• Cytogenetics

Total number of research papers published by the department : 350 approx.