BIO SCIENCE

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The Bioscience centre started as a Biotechnology unit in 2009 with molecular biology and tissue culture laboratory with the quest to complement conventional or classical plants and animals breeding at IAR and T. The laboratory has modest facilities to undertake studies in the areas of tissue culture and molecular biology techniques. The unit was upgraded to a Bioscience centre recently under the leadership of the executive director of IAR&T, Professor Veronica Obatolu. The centre now comprises three active laboratories (molecular biology and tissue culture laboratory, pathology laboratory and entomology laboratory).

The centre carries out research activities with the application of different biotechnology techniques towards improving the existing germplasm collection of plants and animals at IAR&T. To develop new lines and breeds with desirable traits in the shortest possible time for further introgression into the breeding programmes.

The centre with modern technology transferred equipment will proffer more solutions to the problems of food insecurity by increasing food production and sustainability of the farmers’ livelihood and other stakeholders in Nigeria. The centre has experienced scientists and technologists with the know-how-techniques of modern molecular biology, tissue culture, pathology and nematology research.