Services offerred

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:47:28 +0000

Services offered to growers of spices

Scarification of Cardamom Seeds
Supply of planting materials
Supply of bioagents such as Trichoderma, Psuedomonas and EPN Cadavers
Advisory services based on soil testing and leaf tissue diagnostics
Weather forecasting services.
Conducting spice clinics
Training on mass production of bio agents and on Good Agricultural Practices
Training to planters on scientific cardamom cultivation
Plantation visit and recommendation for pest and disease control

Collaborative Projects

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 08:46:02 +0000

Collaborative Projects: On Going

1.Crop Improvement Division:

ICAR & Spices Board co-sponsored Co-ordinated varietal trial on small cardamom: under the network project All India Co-ordinated Research Project on Spices (AICRPS) ICAR New Delhi, in collaboration with IISR, Calicut.
Facility for DUS testing centre on small cardamom& Black Pepper, funded byProtection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Authority, GoI, in collaboration with IISR, Calicut.

2. Plant Pathology Division: Area wide integrated pest management (AWIPM) for wilt disease in black pepper with State Planning Board, Govt. Of Kerala in Collaboration with I.I.S.R., Calicut, 2014-2017.

3.Biotechnology Division:

‘Transcriptome Sequencing in small and large cardamoms’ in collaboration with Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI-ICAR), New Delhi.
Spices Board sponsored project on "Molecular marker Studies on Archaeobotanical samples of spices viz. black pepper & cardamom from Pattanam Archaeological site" in collaboration with Kerala Council of Historical Research (KCHR), Thiruvananthapuram.

Research Publications

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:39:26 +0000

CROP IMPROVEMENT & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Priyadarshan, P.M., Madhusoodanan, KJ., Kuruvilla, K.M. and Radhakrishnan, V.V. 1990. Tissue culture for rapid clonal propagation. In: Cardamom Production Technology. A guide to planters. ICRI, Spices Board. pp. 1419.
Madhusoodanan, KJ., Kuruvilla, K.M. and Priyadarshan, P.M. 1994. Genetic resources of cardamom. In: Advances in Horticulture. Vol. 9. Part 1. Chadha, K.L. and P. Rethinum (eds.), Malhotra Publishing House, New Delhi. pp. 121 130.
Madhusoodanan, K.J., Kuruvilla, K.M. and Priyadarshan, P.M. 1994. Improvement of cardamom. In: Advances in Horticulture. Vol. 9. Part 1. Chadha, K.L. and P. Rethinum (eds.), Malhotra Publishing House, New Delhi. pp. 307 - 314.
Pradipkumar, K., Mary Mathew, K., Rao, Y.S., Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Potty, S.N. 1997. Role of Biotechnology in spice crop improvement (Review). In: Role of Biotechnology in Medicinal and Aromatic Crops (Vol. I). Khan, LA and Khanum, A (eds.). pp. 190 - 198.
Madhusoodanan, K.J., Pradipkumar, K. and Radhakrishnan, V.V. 1998. Vanilla tissue culture - a lab to land programme. In: Plant tissue culture and molecular biology. Nair, G.M (ed.). University of Kerala, Trivandrum.
Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Rao, Y.S. 2001. Cardamom (large). In: Handbook of herbs and spices. Peter, K.V (ed.). Woodhead Publishing Ltd., England. pp. 134 - 140.
Madhusoodanan, K.J., Radhakrishnan, V.V. and Sudharshan, M.R. 2003. Botany. In: Vanilla the prince of spices. Thomas, J. and Rao, Y.S (eds.). Spices Board, Cochin. pp. 5-9.
Thomas, J. and Madhusoodanan, K.J. 2003. Package of practices. In: Vanilla the prince of spices. Thomas, J. and Rao, Y.S (eds.). Spices Board, Cochin. pp. 10-18.
Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Radhakrishanan, V.V. Herbal spices - cultivation, trade and usage. In: Progress in Spice Culture. Haworth Press, Inc. New York (In press).
Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Radhakrishnan, V.V. Uses of cardamom - Traditional and Modem. In:Cardamom. Ravindran, P.N and Madhusoodanan, KJ (eds.).Harwood Academic Publishers. (In press).
Madhusoodanan, KJ. and Radhakrishnan, V.V. Vanilla - Botany. In: Vanilla Monograph. Spices Board, Cochin. (In press).
Thomas, J. and Madhusoodanan, KJ. Vanilla - Package of Practices. In: Vanilla Monograph, Spices Board, Cochin. (in press).
Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Radhakrishnan, V.V. Small cardamom and Vanilla. In: Encyclopaedia of Cultivated Plants. Swaminathan, M.S and Kochhar, S.L (eds.) (In press).
Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Gopakumar, B. Cardamom - the queen of spices. In: Progress in Spice Culture. Howorth Press Inc., New York (In press).
Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Rao, Y.S. Glimpses in plantation crops research. Chadha, K.L. and Nair, M.K (eds.), ICAR, New Delhi, India (In press).
Madhusoodanan, K.J. Chapters on small cardamom, large cardamom and vanilla. In: Directory of Spices. Indian Society for Spices, Calicut, India (In press) .
Madhusoodanan, K.J. and Radhakrishnan, V.V. Vanilla - a profile. In: Spices, Plantation, Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. Singh, J (ed.). Bikaner, India (In press).
Koshy John and Madhusoodanan, K.J. Spices - transfer of technology and extension activities. In: Spices Research and Development in India - 50 years. Raveendran, P.N (ed.), ICAR, New Delhi, India (In press).
Madhusoodanan, KJ. Cardamom - post harvest processing and value addition. In: Book on Plantation Crops. Mohanan, KV (ed.), University of Calicut, Calicut, Kerala, India (In press).
Madhusoodanan, KJ. Post harvest technology of pepper - processing and value addition. In: Book on Plantation Crops. Mohanan, KV (ed.), University of Calicut, Calicut, Kerala, India (In press).
Rao, Y.S., Madhusoodanan, KJ. and Potty, S.N. Large cardamom. In: Spices research and development in India - 50 years. Raveendran, P.N. (ed.), IISR, Calicut (In press).
Kuruvilla, K.M., Rao, Y.S., Mary Mathew, K and Pradipkumar, K 2003. Planting material. In: Vanilla the prince of spice. Thomas, J. and Rao, Y.S (eds.). Spices Board, Cochin.

Plant Pathology

Joseph Thomas, A.K. Vijayan, R. Suseela Bhai and R. Naidu. 1993. Biocontrol of rhizome rot disease of small cardamom. In Crop Diseases Innovative Techniques and Management. 189-197. Eds. K. Sivaprakasam and K. Seetharaman Kalyani Publishers, New Delhi.
Joseph Thomas, Vijayan A.K., Suseela Bhai R. and Susan George. 1994.Trichoderma spp. in vermicomposting systems- a new approach Science. Research Editor. Imran A. Khan. 629-633. for bio- control of rot diseases of small cardamom. Frontiers in Plant
Naidu, R. and Joseph Thomas 1994. Viral diseases of cardamom. Advances in Horticulture voL10.. Plantation and spice crops part 2. pages1101-1111. Eds. K.L. Chadha and P. Rethinam. Malhotra Publishing House, New Delhi.
Dhanapal, K., Joseph Thomas and Naidu, R. 1996. Use of neem in integrated management of rot diseases of cardamom. In "Neem and Environment". Vol. 2. P.793-798. Eds. R.P. Singh, M.S. Chari, A.K. Raheja and W. Krous. Oxford and IBH Publishing houses. New Delhi.
Dhanapal, K and Joseph Thomas 1996. Evaluation of Trichoderma isolates against rot pathogens of small cardamom. Current Trends in Life Sciences XXI Eds.K. Manibhushan Rao, and A Mahadevan. Today and Tomorrow Printers and Publishers, New Delhi
Joseph Thomas and Susan George 1998. Studies on Nilgiri Necrosis disease of small cardamom. In Developments in Plantation Crops Research (1998) 244- 250. Eds. N.M. Mathew and C. Kuruvilla Jacob. Rubber Research Institute of India, Kottayam. Allied Publishers Ltd. New Delhi.
Govindaraju, C, Joseph Thomas and Sudharshan M.R.1998. Chenthal disease of cardamom caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Penz. and its control. In Developments in Plantation Crops Research 255-259. Eds. N.M. Mathew and C. Kuruvilla Jacob. Rubber Research Institute of India, Kottayam. Allied Publishers Ltd. New Delhi.
Suseela Bhai, R., Sarma Y.R. and Joseph Thomas 1998. Integrated management strategy for capsule rot of cardamom. In Recent Advances in Plantation Crops Research 378-381. Eds. N. Muraleedharan and R. Rajkumar. Allied Publishers Ltd. New Delhi.
Dhanapal, K. and Joseph Thomas 1998. Stem rot - a new fungal disease of small cardamom. In Recent Advances in Plantation Crops research. 408-411. Eds. N. Muraleedharan and R. Rajkumar. Allied Publishers New Delhi.
Joseph Thomas, 2000. Biological control of rot diseases of small cardamom. In "Biocontrol Potential and its Exploitation in Sustainable Agriculture". Volume 1. Crop Diseases, Weeds and Nematodes. Eds. R.K. Upadhyaya, K.G. Mukerji and B.P. Chamola. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. New york. P. 223-237 (294 pp).
Joseph Thomas, 2000. Biological control of insect pests of small cardamom. In " Biocontrol potential and its exploitation in sustainable Agriculture" Vol. II. P. 389-400. Eds. K. Upadhyaya, K.G. Mukerji and B.P. Chamola. Kluwer Academic/Plenum publishers. New York.
Joseph Thomas and R. Suseela Bhai, 2002. Diseases of Cardamom (Fungal, Bacterial and Nematode Diseases). In Cardamom-The Genus Elettaria. Eds. P.N. Ravindran and K.J. Madhusoodanan. Pages 160-179. Taylor & FrancisLondon and New York.
Joseph Thomas and Suseela Bhai, R.and Vijayan, A.K., 2003. Diseases and their management. In Vanilla, The Prince of Spices. P .29-41. Publ. Spices Board, Kochi.
Vijayan, A.K. and Joseph Thomas, 2002. Management of Diseases of Aromatic Herbs. In Recent Progress in Medicinal Plants, vol. 6. Diseases and Their Management. ( PP 212). 159-170 . Eds. P.Sinha, J.N.Govil & V.K.Singh.SCI Tech Publishing LLC.USA
Joseph Thomas, Suseela Bhai R., Vijayan A.K. and Dhanapal, K. 1996. Trichoderma, a potential bio-agent for control of soil borne diseases of small cardamom. Current Trend in Life Sciences XXI 43-52. Eds. K. Manibhushan Rao and A. Mahadevan. Today and Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi.

ENTOMOLOGY

Kumares an, D., Regupathy, A. and Bhaskaran, P. (1988) Pests of Spices, Rajalakshmi Publications, Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, India, p 241
Varadarasan, S. (1995) Biological control of insect pests of cardamom. IN: Biological control of social forest and plantation crop insects (Ed. T.N. Ananthakrishnan), Published by Oxford & IBH Pub!. Co. Ltd., New Delhi, India, pp 109-119.
Varadarasan, S. and Biswas, A.K. (2002) Large Cardamom (Amomum subulatum Roxb.) IN: Cardamom the genus Elettaria (Eds. Dr. P.N. Ravindran and K.J. Madhusoodanan) Taylor & Francis, London pp 299-329.
Gopakumar, B. and Chandrasekar, S.S. (2002) Insect Pests of cardamom. IN:Cardamom the genus Elettaria (Eds. Dr. P.N. Ravindran and KJ. Madhusoodanan), Taylor & Francis, London pp 180-206
Varadarasan, S. (2002) Technical Bulletin on "Cardamom root grub". Published by Spices Board, Kochi, India. 55 pp.

Indian Cardamom Research Institute

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 07:35:06 +0000

Spices Board - Research

Services offerred

Collaborative Projects

Research Publications

Indian Cardamom Research Institute