Oilseed Research Institute, Faisalabad

Following are the research activities performed at Oilseed Research Institute, Faisalabad

Sunflower

  • Maintenance of inbred lines
  • Development of inbred lines
  • Parent seed production
  • Development of new hybrid combinations/seed production
  • Study of new sunflower hybrids
  • National uniform sunflower yield trial
  • Hybrid seed production

Sesame

  • Maintenance of gene pool
  • Hybridization programme
  • Study of filial generations
  • Sowing date trial
  • Preliminary seed yield trial
  • Advanced seed yield trial
  • Zonal testing
  • National uniform sesame yield trial
  • Seed multiplication

Summer Mustard, Faisalabad

  • Maintenance of gene pool
  • Hybridization programme
  • Study of filial generations
  • Preliminary seed yield trial
  • Advanced seed yield trial
  • Zonal varietal trials

Winter Rapeseed-Mustard, Faisalabad

  • Maintenance of gene pool
  • Hybridization programme
  • Study of filial generations
  • Preliminary seed yield trial (B. napus)
  • Advanced seed yield trial (B. napus)
  • Zonal varietal trials (B. napus)
  • Micro yield trials of Rapeseed
  • Preliminary seed yield trial (B. juncea)
  • Advanced seed yield trial (B. juncea)
  • Zonal varietal trials (B. juncea)
  • Micro yield trials of Mustard
  • National uniform rapeseed and mustard yield trials

Hybrid Canola Program

  • Development of restorer lines in Brassica napus
  • Maintenance of inbred lines
  • Development of experimental hybrids
  • Testing of new canola hybrids

Soybean

  • Maintenance of gene pool
  • Adaptability yield trial
  • Seed multiplication

Linseed

  • Maintenance of gene pool
  • Hybridization programme
  • Study of filial generations
  • Preliminary seed yield trial
  • Advanced seed yield trial
  • Zonal testing
  • Seed multiplication

Castor

  • Maintenance of inbred lines
  • Development of inbred lines
  • Zonal trial.
  • Seed multiplication

Oil Technology Group

  • Screening of lines/ varieties of oilseed crops for oil contents.
  • Screening of rapeseed and mustard lines/varieties for erucic acid.
  • Screening of rapeseed and mustard lines for glucosinolates content.

Entomology Group

  • Screening of Promising Strains /Hybrids /genotypes of Different Oilseed crops against insects pests attacking these crops.
  • Testing the Efficacy of some new pesticides in oilseed crops, assuring an optimum safety level of beneficial insects (e.g. Predators, Parasites and Parasitoids) of these crops.
  • To save the breeding material of Oilseed crops from insect pest.
  • Identification of some non-chemical pest control solutions supplementing economic constraints of the peasantry.

Pathology Group

  • Screening of advance lines/hybrids of all oilseeds crops against various diseases
  • Evaluation of various fungicides against various diseases
  • Development of resistant inbred lines of important oilseeds crops against potentially important diseases
  • Plant protection measures against oilseed crops diseases
  • Diagnosis of oilseed crops diseases in-vitro and their remedies