Vegetable Crops Ongoing Projects

• Collection, maintenance and documentation of Amaranthus germplasm.
• varietal and hybrids trial in tropical and temperate vegetables
• Resistant varietal trial

• Standardization of agro techniques for hybrid Vegetables
• Survey and surveillance of diseases of important vegetable crops in the farmer’s field
• Epidemiology of most important diseases of commercially important vegetable crops
• Integrated management of TOSPO virus disease of tomato
• c) Integrated management of YVMV disease of okra

• Collection, conservation, cataloguing and evaluation of genetic resources of tuber crops
• Collection and conservation of minor tuber crops available in the respective location of the  centres
• Testing of genetic resources at various agro climatic environments – Colocasia and  Elephant foot yam

• Phenology of tuber crops in relation to climate change in elephant foot yam
• Phenology of tuber crops in relation to climate change in Taro
• Intercropping in greater yam

• Survey and surveillance of pests and diseases of root and tuber crops

• Collection, evaluation and conservation of onion germplasm.
• Evaluation of onion varieties / hybrids for yield and quality.

• Survey and monitoring of major diseases of onion
• Screening of onion varieties / lines for disease resistance
• Evaluation of new molecules and its combination for insect pests and disease complex of onion
• Impact of thrips tabaci diversity on epidemiology of Iris yellow spot virus in seed onion crop
• Pest management in onion
• Studies on post harvest losses in onion.

• DST –SERB – Exploitation of hybrid vigour for quality and yield improvement through marker assisted selection in cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
• SADP Project on Doubling the income of vegetable growers in Dindigul district through brinjal grafting technique to mitigate biotic and abiotic stress and promotion of seed production technique in vegetable crops
• DFI Project- Adoption of Sokkanur village at Kinathukadavu block