BioNexus

BioNexus – India’s largest plant microbe library.

BioNexus is our ambitious project of building a pan-India functional microbial library focusing on plant trait modifications. Today, we host the largest plant microbe library in India. The library has more than 17000+ microbes collected from 400 different locations in India. This wealth of microbes has the potential to confer plants with drought tolerance, disease resistance, enhanced yields to name a few. 

Plant microbiome dictates the survival and fit of crops especially in stressed conditions, conferring resistance against biotic and abiotic factors. The potential application of these microbes is vast ranging from being used in field as prebiotics and probiotics for crops to seed treatments and being incorporated in breeding programs. This approach is highly diversified from the basic microbe-based products in the markets.