Recognitions/Awards
Recognitions
  • Recognized as a research centre by the University of Kannur, Kerala for conducting Ph. D programmes in Plant Sciences
  • Accreditation as Pharmaceutical testing laboratory by AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India
Awards
Plant Systematics and Genetic Resources Division
  • Received the S.R. Yadav award for the best poster titled “Notes on a Few Rare, Endemic and Threatened plants in the Western Ghats of Kerala and Tamilnadu”by Udayan, P.S., K.V. Tushar, Satheesh George and Indira Balachandran at the XIVth National Seminar of Indian Association for Angiosperm Taxonomy (IAAT) held at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, during 29-31 December, 2004
Pharmacognosy Division
  1. Received the best poster award in the Health Sciences category for the research paper titled “Anatomical markers as a tool to identify genuine raw drug Asoka from its common adulterants” by Jayanthi A. and A.B. Remashree at the XVII Kerala Science Congress, KFRI, Peechi, 29-31 January,2005
  2. Received the best poster award in the Life Sciences category and also the overall best poster award for the research paper titled “Calcium oxalate crystals and stone cells distribution pattern as a key to identify ten important raw drugs used in Ayurveda” by Rema Shree A.B. and A. Jayanthi at the XVIIIth Kerala Science Congress, CESS, Akulam, Trivandrum, 29-31 January, 2006
Tissue Culture and Biotechnology Division
  1. Best poster award in the area of Life Sciences to the paper titled “Micropropagation from juvenile explants of Operculina turpethum – A threatened medicinal plant” in the 18th Kerala Science Congress, held in January 2006 at Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS), Thiruvananthapuram
  2. Dr. Geetha, S. Pillai, Senior Scientist, received Jawaharlal Nehru Award for PG Agricultural Research 2004 in the field of Crop improvement - Germplasm Conservation, from Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, for her thesis.
  3. Mr. Gerald Martin, Scientist, Received International Plant Genetic Resources (IPGRI) Scholarship– to attend training on “Use of Molecular Markers for characterization of genetic resources’ held at Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China.