Major programs
1. Taking Advance Technologies to Farmer’s Field
Quality seeds and planting materials of the best varieties suitable for specific regions are taken to the farmers by distribution of mini kits, on farm demonstration of their superiority and helping the farmers adopt these new technologies. Farmers are also guided with the production and marketing of quality seeds and planting materials through FPOs and suitable industry partnerships.
2. Breeding Climate-Resilient Plant Varieties
TGF helps public research institutions, private seed companies and genomics service providers with the development of climate-resilient, nutritious and productive versions of highly adopted varieties of food, feed, fibre, fruit and agroforestry plants by genome editing and genomics-assisted breeding.
3. Genotyping and Diagnostic Services
TGF provides help and technical guidance to public and private sector research institutions, seed industries and regulators with precision breeding, varietal identification and quality control of seeds and planting materials, food and feed products, genotyping assay deign, analysis of samples till report preparation. It will also support disease diagnosis and predisposition to genetic disorders.
4. Genomic Research
TGF with its strong background in plant genomics provides support and technical guidance to public and private research institutions and service providers in genome assembly and annotation, expression profiling, QTL mapping, association mapping and marker development for breeding and quality control applications.
5. Conferences and workshops
An important objective of TGF is to organise national and international conferences and workshops on topical issues in Agriculture and allied sectors, particularly in the area of genomics and genome editing for exchange of knowledge and help develop collaborations and partnerships through personal interactions. TGF brings out status papers and policy guidance papers through consultations with stake holders across the value chain from production to consumption.
6. Skill Development
There is a critical gap in the availability of trained human resource for conducting high-end genome informatics research. A key focus of TGF is to develop constant pool of trained human resource in the area of Genomics with strong Genome Informatics capabilities by providing a suitable platform for learning by doing such project work. It also provides hands on medium-tem trainings to students and regular staff of the public and private sector for skill enhancement in Genetics and Genomics.
