Indian Institute of Pulses Research - [IIPR]

Indian Institute of Pulses Research (IIPR) is a government institute in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. It was established in the year 1983 by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to carry out basic strategic and applied research on major pulse crops. The Institute is involved in generation of basic information, development of high yielding varieties and appropriate production and protection technologies, demonstration and transfer of technologies, production of breeder seeds and strategic coordination of pulses research through wide network of testing centers across the country.

It is situated on Grand Trunk Road and is about 12 KM from Kanpur Central Railway Station towards New Delhi. Collaboration: ACIAR, Australia AVRDC, Taiwan ICARDA, Syria ICRISAT, India Research: DNA fingerprinting of major pulse crops of India Molecular Markers in Crop Improvement National Initiative on climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) Functional genomics in chickpea Development and validation of PCR