SCIENCE AND INNOVATION CENTRE OF SRIBIO  
     
 
 
     
 

Sri biotech has established world class, state-of-the-art laboratory facilities in India that include, in addition to its general lab space, clean room, microbiology labs, farm house space for experiments and field trials.

The company is also building its new premises, which will include additional facilities another unit for pilot and commercial scale manufacturing of Biological products, labs for research on emerging pathogens, pilot scale metabolites extraction facilities as well as facilities for trials.
 
     
 
    • 25,000sft under controlled conditions for fermentation and down stream processing.
    • 18,000 sft for formulation, package and storage.
    • 500000lts annual fermentation capacity.
    • 1000mt of microbial pesticide production capacity.
    • With 200% expansion capacity.
 
     
 

Sri Biotech offers fully integrated biotechnology platform, set up to promote research & development relationships/services worldwide. The company makes use of its high throughput proven technologies, complemented by world-class management with the commitment to transparency and emphasis on ecologically viable strategies.

             Research team is backed by well-trained scientific research team and state of the art fully equipped research laboratories.
Through its in-house research programs, company has developed strong competencies in agriculture, environment and health, resulting in an integrated biotechnology platform, which is applied in its focus areas to aid the rapid development of novel biologicals for

  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Health
 
  Sribio @ ENVIRONMENT  
  Crop protection: Powerful, Potent and Environmentally Friendly  
 
Sri Biotech plays a vital role in the adoption of environmentally friendly pest, disease and weed control practices. Researchers discovered active microbes of pest, disease and weed, when properly formulated and produced in commercial quantities, can become efficacious bio-control agent for pest, disease and weeds.
 
     
  Crop nutrition:  
 

Proper nutrition is essential for satisfactory crop growth and production. Biofertilizer is a material containing microorganism(s) added to a soil to directly or indirectly make certain essential elements available to plants for their nutrition. Various sources of biofertilizers include nitrogen fixers, phytostimulators, phosphate solubilizing bacteria, plant growth promoting rhizobacteria etc.

 
     
  Crop improvement:  
 
It is paradoxical that at a time of increasing demand for new cultivars to satisfy growing global needs for more productive agriculture. Molecular-based tools with which to understand the genetic basis of complex traits and to manipulate critical genes will provide unprecedented opportunities for crop improvement. To meet future needs, Sribio engaged in cultivar development, prebreeding and population improvement, biotechnology and applied genomics.
 
     
 

Sribio @ ENVIRONMENT

 
     
  Bioremediation:  
 

With the high costs of site remediation, it is important that we continue to develop and refine innovative, low-cost methods for cleaning the environment. Phytoremediation also has the benefit of contributing to site restoration when remedial action is ongoing. The phytoremediation of organic compounds can take place from the soil, air, groundwater or surface water. The action of plants can include the degradation, adsorption, accumulation and volatilization of compounds or the enhancement of soil rhizosphere activity. Which plant activity occurs can depend not only on the medium to be remediated and the type of plant used, but also on the physical properties of the contaminant. Thus, two different compounds in the same medium can interact with a plant in very different ways. We classify compounds of a similar nature together and discuss how recent studies have helped to elucidate plant interactions with those compounds.  

 
     
  Management of  Weeds:  
 

There are several biotic and abiotic compounds, which are known to cause environmental pollution. Significant attention has been paid towards the soil, air and water pollution caused by sewage, industrial effluents, pesticides, vehicle etc. However, very little attention has been paid towards biopollutants. Amongst them weeds are now considered to be the most dangerous one. It is known to be responsible for several health hazards to humans and animals and is a major threat to agriculture and resurgence of forests. India is now recognized as a dumping yard of several exotic weeds including the noxious weed Parthenium hysterophorus, Lantana camara and Euphorbia hirta etc. Several methods of its control viz., mechanical, chemical, biological and suppression through utilization or replacement have been recommended by the scientists. Sri Biotech developed some microbial metabolites which is effective for weeds management.

 
 

Sribio @ HEALTH

 
  Ganoderma lucidum:  
 

Ganoderma is a species of the class basidiomycetes and family Polyporaceae. Commonly known as wood decaying fungus, it causes white rot of a wide variety of trees and can thus be described as a phytopathogenic fungus (week parasite). Because of its perceived health benefits, its fruiting body has gained wide popularity in recent years as dietary supplements, not only in Japan, China and Korea but also in North America and other parts of the world. It possesses wide variety of biological activities, such as antitumor, antimicrobial, cardiovascular, respiratory, antihepatotoxic, antinociceptive etc.

 
     
  Innovation:  
 

 

 
 
 
  At present, the research activities in this Laboratory include 5 fields.  
 

1)Bioremediation: The novel technologies for microbial conversion of biomass, such as lignocellulosics biodegradation, the isolation of microorganisms which can actively degrade lignin and cellulose, the modification, production and application of cellulases and other related enzymes, the microbial conversion of agricultural and industrial wastes into useful products. 

(2)Development of Bioinsecticide:  Standardized environment effective, cost effective and commercially viable and UV radiation mass production technologies of various candidate of bioinsecticides viz. Beauveria bassiana, Metarhizium anisopilae, Verticillium lecanii.

(3)Development of Biofungicide: Development of mass culture/production technology of fungal antagonists (Pseudomonas fluorescens, Trichoderma viride, Trichoderma harzianum) for their dissemination at large scale for management of fungal diseases of various ornamental and industrial crops.

(4). Development of Bioherbicide:  The invention relates to describe host-specific extracellular phytotoxins produced by fungi that have a broad range as a pre-emergent and/or post-emergent bioherbicide, this isolate has been isolated, a method using toxin has been developed for controlling certain herbs including Parthenium hysterophorus, Lantana camara and Euphorbia hirta etc, these phytotoxins can be used partially pure, as a cell-and spore-free filtrate, a crude filtrate, or a crude suspension of the culture and optionally along with other additives.

(5). Development of PGPR:  Increasing success is being achieved by inoculation with plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) mainly Azospirillum, Pseudomonas and Bacillus in rice and groundnut, saving 25% nutrients.
 
     
     
     
   TECHNOLOGY BASKET FOR FUTURE  
 
Bioherbicide In-House R&D Centre
Bionematicide Project Directorate of Biological Control.
Bollcure Tata Energy Research Institute
Bt Directorate of Oil Seed Research
 
     
  Patents in Process:  
 
  • A Cost Effective Process for the development of mycoherbicide for the control of weeds.


  • A cost effective protocol for large scale production of  Bacillus sp as Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria).


  • A novel process of mass production of   biofungicide from Trichoderma sp.
 
     
 
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