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Department of Plant Sciences

Research Areas
Research Awards
Research Grants

Applied Microbiology

Dr. C M Nanayakkara

  • Biofertilizers
  • Biological Control Agents
  • Bioremediation
  • Microbial Biodiversity
  • Natural Products

Fungal Genetics

Dr. K G S U Ariyawansa

  • Fungal endophytes
  • Plant-fungal interactions
  • Plant disease resistance
  • Fungal endophytes for disease control
  • Commercial applications of fungal endophytes

Plant Biotechnology

Dr. H D D Bandupriya

  • Plant tissue culture
  • In vitro conservation
  • Gene expression
  • Genetic transformation
  • Bioactive compounds

Plant Biotechnology & Plant Breeding

Ms. D M R G Mayakaduwa

  • Plant tissue culture
  • In vitro anther culture for crop improvement

Environmental Science

Dr. I A J K Dissanayake

  • Environment modeling
  • carbon sequestrationt

Genetics and Plant Breeding

Prof. T D Silva

  • Wide Hybridization
  • Crop Germplasm Characterization & Conservation
  • In Vitro Anther Culture

Bioinformatics

 
  • Genomics
  • Transcriptomics
  • Proteomics
  • Metagenomics
  • Machine learning
  • Phylogenetics
  • Systems Biology

Research Groups

Bioinformatics

Ecology and Environment

In-vitro plant propagation & somatic embryogenesis

Microbiology

Molecular Biology / Biotechnology

Plant Breeding and in-vitro Culture

Plant Pathology

Plant Systematics