Facilities

The Plant Breeding Institute features modern greenhouse, laboratory and field facilities. The greenhouse incorporates the latest technology in design and environment control. To maintain precise temperature control, the Institute utilises up-to-date computer systems for the greenhouse complex.

There are laboratories for molecular genetics, cytogenetics and tissue culture as well as controlled environment rooms for extended long-term storage of seed. Isolates of the rust fungi are maintained in liquid nitrogen.

The adjacent field facilities include a 120 megalitre dam and a 63 m lateral move irrigator for the Karalee site and a new Monsoon irrigator for the Lansdowne site. In addition to the research facilities available for undergraduate and post-graduate students, there is a 60-seat lecture theatre and a conference room.