Facilities
Laboratory-cum-Administrative building
The main office-cum-laboratory building of NRC Grapes, "Dr. G.S. Cheema Bhavan", comprises of a Director's Office, Administrative-cum-Accounts Office, Library, Seminar Hall, Committee Room, Museum, ARIS Cell, and ten laboratories.
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Experimental vineyards have been established over an area of 32 acres of land and planted with table grape varieties namely Thompson Seedless, Tas-A-Ganesh on rootstocks and on own roots for various experiments. Flat roof gable and bower system have been erected for training of the vines. Drip irrigation system has been installed in the planted area. |
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| A view of experimental field |
The Centre has collected 415 accessions, which comprises seedless (including an exotic labrusca) and seeded table grape varieties, wine/juice cultivars, rootstock varieties/species, and several hybrids. The germplasm is being maintained as active collection in a block on Dogridge rootstock.
Well equipped laboratories facilitate the research work at NRC for Grapes. The Centre has developed sophisticated facilities for analysis of soil, plant and water samples, nutrient analysis, pesticide residue analysis in grapes, Bio technological, agrochemical, pathological, entomological and physiological research.Crop Improvement
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To conduct research towards grape improvement through breeding as well as biotechnological approaches like tissue culture and molecular marker analysis, sophisticated equipments like PCR machine, sequencing gel apparatus, gel documentation system, circulatory water baths, electrophoresis system, gel dryer, refrigerated microfuge, high speed centrifuge, culture incubators, laminar flow, shakers etc. are available at the centre. |
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Crop Production
Research under crop production is conducted in the areas of canopy management, rootstock compatibility, bioregulators, abiotic stress management, and nutrient and water use efficiency. Ultra modern sophisticated equipments like atomic absorption spectrophotometer, multichannel auto analyser, infra red gas analyser, canopy analyser, osmometer, flame photometer, leaf area meter, steady state porometer, pressure bomb apparatus have been procured to meet the challenges in grape production research. Following laboratories have been established to work for crop production.
Agro-technique Lab
The Agro-technique lab is equipped to perform following functions
1) Rootstock collection evaluation and maintenance
2) Study of salt tolerance
3) Canopy management (training and pruning)
Soil Science Lab
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Soil science lab is setup to perform following functions
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A view from soil science lab - Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer |
Physiology Lab
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The physiology lab is equipped to perform following functions
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A view from Plant Physiology lab |
Crop Protection and Residue Monitoring
Biocontrol agents, disease forecasting and fungicide use efficiency, minimising pesticide residue through integrated pest management, determining PHI and minimum waiting period are the thrust areas of crop protection and residue monitoring. Equipments like fermenter, automated weather station with disease forecasting software, gas chromatograph, solid phase extraction, vacuum concentrator, stereomicroscope etc are available. An aerobiology facility to handle microbial culture under highly sterile conditions has been developed.
Plant Pathology Lab
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Plant pathology lab is equipped to perform following functions
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Aview from Plant Pathology lab - Trinocular Research Microscope |
Pesticide Residue Lab
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The Pesticide residue lab is equipped to perform following functions
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A view from Pesticide Residue lab - Gas Chromatogram |
Post-harvest Technology
Equipments and facilities required to undertake research in the areas of raisin, wine, juice are being acquired.
ARIS (Agricultural Research Information System) cell provides IT requirements of the institute. It has Local Area Network with Server Compaq Prolinat ML 350 and two managed Swithches DLink DES 3262S to provide resource sharing, data exchange, internet and email facility through VSAT connectivity.
Farm activities are carried out using agricultural machineries and farm implements. NRCG has a number of different kinds of tractors and trailers and also has pump sets and diesel generator. Among farm equipments NRC for Grapes has variety of implements, which includes farm tractor operated seedrill, cultivator, spring type cultivator, leveler, garden tractor rotary (rotavator), M.B. plough (reversible type), farm tractor operated disc plough and disc harrow.
The Center is having an air-conditioned seminar hall with the capacity of 50 seats. It is equipped with LCD projector, over head projector, display screen and computer facility for presentations.
