A large conservatory botanic garden and research institution established by the Government of Kerala which functions under the umbrella of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE). It was found on 17 November 1979 with the objective of providing conservation of tropical plant resources in the country in general and Kerala in particular. It also undertakes research activities for the sustainable utilization of the plant wealth of the country. The idea was conceived after the first United Nations Conference on Human Environment, held in Stockholm in 1972 with the committed efforts by late Professor A. Abraham, the Founder Director with help of Kew Botanic Gardens UK. The institute works on areas of Biotechnology, Bioinformatics, Conservation Biology, Ethnomedicine, Ethnopharmacology, Garden Management, Microbiology, Phytochemistry, Phytopharmacology, Phytochemical Nanotechnology, Plant genetic resources, Plant Systematics and Evolutionary Science. It has state of art facilities of commercial plant tissue culture, in silico drug design, herbarium, drug testing on animal models, seed bank, pollen bank, mushroom biology, field gene banks, species conservatories. The institute supports students, interns, and research scholars in plant science and biomedical sciences.

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