1. Bioprospection, Utilization and Conservation of Plant Biodiversity

• Collection of indigenous fruits and vegetables, herbs, medicinal, aromatic and pesticidal plants.
• Research in conservation techniques for cost effective and efficient conservation activities
• Identification of elite accessions – high yield, tasty and good quality fruits, high antioxidant , vitamin, minerals,
• Resistant accessions to abiotic and biotic stress
• Plant with biopesticidal properties

2. Conservation and Utilisation of Arthropod Diversity Important to Agriculture

• Development of NPV (Nucleopolyhedrosis virus)based biopesticide for Spodoptera litura, S. exigua and Atteva sciodoxa,
• Technology package for commercial production of arthropod based protein for animal feed,
• Biobased technology package for managing tiger moth on tongkat ali,
• Inventorisation and characterisation of arthropod species associated with selected economic crops, herbs, medicinal plants, under-utilised fruits and traditional vegetables including 'ulam'

3. Conservation and Sustainable Utilisation of Microbial Diversity Important to Agriculture

• Conservation of microbial resources important to agriculture
• Utilization of microbial resources for use as biological control agent and odour removal,
• Virus mild strain to control CTV (Citrus Tristeva Virus)
• Development of rapid microbial detection technique

4. Ecosystem Approach in Agrobiodiversity Conservation

• Integrating ecoagriculture technologies to establish workable models for conservation sustainable and utilization agrobiodiversity.
• Quantification of cost conservation techniques and ecosystem services provided by biodiversity component
• Formulation (models) of technologies that promoting sustainable agriculture development

• Developing comprehensive information system for the three components of agrobiodiversity resources namely plants (Plant Genetic Resource for Food and Agriculture), arthropod and microorganism.