RESEARCH
Focus
- Bioprospecting for anticancer, antidiabetic, antimicrobials, insecticidal principles and other pharmacologically active compounds from biological sources.
- Characterization of phytochemicals with therapeutic potential.
- Evaluation of biodiversity as a source of bioactive phytochemicals.
- Concentrating on the biochemistry of lipid and carbohydrate biosynthesis to achieve major gains in the plant agriculture.
- Isolation, purification and large scale production of commercially important enzymes from natural sources.
- Understanding the biosynthesis of cyanogenic glucosides and elucidation of their role in the ability of plants to communicate with the environment and to defend themselves against pathogens and abiotic stress.
- Biochemistry of biofuel production.