| Sanction Date: | 21-12-2018 | |||
| Project Category | MG | |||
| Year | 2018-2019 | |||
| Project Duration | 3 Years + 9 Months project extension | |||
| BTA : | BCM | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
IHR |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) | |||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
| 1. | G.B. Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development, HP Unit-Mohal Kullu, Himachal Pradesh | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Ashok Singh CSIR- Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) PO: 6, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh |
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| Project Brief Description: | Large-scale overexploitation from wild and habitat destruction of commercially important medicinal plant species of the Himalaya has resulted a considerable reduction in their populations. As a result, a threat to these species increased manifold and many of them were found their place in the Red-Data book. In the present study, focus on ex-situ conservation, and the establishment of selected threatened and commercially important species of high altitude areas in the gene bank is proposed (target plant list as Annexure 2 h). Ecological surveys focused on variability in the morphological characters will be conducted on different geographic locations, habitats, and altitudes of occurrence in the high altitude areas. Further, the variability of collected accession samples was tested in the gene bank useful for characterization and evolutions. Collection of planting materials from the wild and their cultivation in the gene banks will be practiced only by the physical appearance of populations, climatic parameters, and variation. Morphological and chemical profiling studies of samples will be useful for knowing the variations recorded within the wild and cultivated ones. At the end selection of elite races/cultivars, carried out and their multiplication will be targeted.
The objectives of the proposed study are: • Morphological studies of selected wild populations and collection of different accessions of selected commercially important threatened medicinal plants • Establishment of a gene bank, field evaluation, chemical and molecular characterization of the target species • Selection of elite accessions from the cultivated species, their multiplication (by conventional and tissue culture techniques) It envisaged that the proposed study would generate information on cultivation potential by improvement program. It also helps us in the conservation of RET species into non- RET species but also generates quality planting material for sustainable resource utilization. |
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| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | All stakeholders right from the Research and development organizations, farmer and industries based on pharmaceutical services will be benefited. |
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| Activity Chart (For 3 years) | Click Here | |||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 69,61,760.00 (Rupees: Sixty Nine Lakh Sixty One Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty Only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
| Morphological studies of selected wild populations and collection of different accessions of selected commercially important threatened medicinal plants | Identification of potential natural habitat (10 No) of RET population and their morphological studies | Number of Potential natural habitat identified (Nos.) |
| Establishment of a gene bank, field evaluation, chemical and molecular characterization of target species | Database on genetically diverse accessions of selected species for conservation | Database generated (Nos.) |
| Selection of elite accessions from the cultivated species, their multiplication (by conventional and tissue culture techniques) | Establishment of field gene banks at CSIR- IHBT Centre for High Altitude Biology at Ribling Lahaul Spiti . | Establishment of gene bank |
| Large Scale multiplication of targeted medicinal plants (>100000) through conventional and tissue culture techniques | Number of medicinal plant phyto-chemically evaluated (Nos.) | |
| Characterization (physical and chemical) to select elite accessions | Number of Medicinal Plants (MPs) multiplied through tissue culture (Nos.) | |
| Database generated (Nos.) | ||
| Database on Molecular level status of selected accessions | No. of Reports, Research articles, etc are prepared and published (Nos.) |
| S.No. | Name | Qualification | Designation (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | Rajat Bhardwaj | MSc. Biotechnology | JPF | @ 20,000/- |
| 2. | Anil Kumar | M.Sc. Environment Science | JRF | @ 20,000/- +HRA |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Use of Equipment/ Details | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | NA |
