Researches of the Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding covers the following areas:
Vegetable crop improvement
-          Development of high yielding snake gourd variety
-          Development of hybrid variety of brinjal and tomato
-          Development of high female cucumber variety
-          Development of OP and hybrid radish utilizing SI and CMS system
-          Development of short duration vegetable pea variety
-          Development of high quality sweet gourd variety
-          Development of high yielding bottle gourd variety


Spices crop improvement


-          Development of high yielding onion variety


-          Development of high yielding capsicum variety




Oil crop improvement


-          Development of hybrid Brassica napus variety utilizing CMS system




Cereal crop improvement


-          Development of short duration aromatic hybrid rice utilizing CMS system




Fruit crop improvement


-          Development of gynoecious papaya variety




Plant genetic resources (PGRs)


-          Coastal belt PGRs collection, conservation and maintenance




Molecular plant breeding and biotechnology


-          Molecular diversity analysis of Bangladeshi aromatic rice


-          Molecular characterization of different pea genotypes


-          In vitro regeneration of tomato genotypes under salt stress


-          In vitro selection of salt tolerant somaclones of Bangladeshi aromatic rice




Renewable Energy Research
 


-          Breeding Jatropha curcas for higher seed and oil yield as a source of renewable energy.