The Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics is currently offering PhD in Plant Breeding and Genetics. During PhD, in the first year, students are taught courses and research methodologies related to crop improvement, cytology, cytogenetics, biometry, quantitative genetics, molecular genetics and tissue culture. In the last two years, students conduct and defend their research as degree requirement.  After completing this degree, students have gained fundamental knowledge in Plant Breeding that can be applied to a range of crops including annual and perennial horticultural crops, agronomic food and feed crops and forestry products. The faculty comprised of well qualified 6 PhD faculty members, among them three faculty members are foreign PhD graduates. The department possess state of the art labs well equipped for conducting research ranging from molecular breeding, molecular biology, tissue culture and cytogenetics.