Achievements

CAGL has been accredited by NABL since 2015 as the FIRST & only Aquaculture Genetics Laboratory in India and re-accredited as per ISO/IEC 17025:2017 standard for the scope of “PCR testing to resolve taxonomic ambiguity of the Indian mangrove mud crab species, samples collected from wild/cultured habitat and from their products” valid up to 2021.

CAGL has own acclaim for revealing FIRST time that there are only two mangrove mud crab species under genus Scylla spp (Brachyura: Portunidae) Available in Indian coastal waters. The finding has immense significance because the accurate identification plays a pivotal role for the propagation and management of the species.

The lab has published several full-length research papers in high impact International Journals like Gene, Food Control, Biochemical Genetics, Animal Genetics, Molecular Biology Reports, Mitochondrial DNA-Part A, Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution etc. and published more than 250 unique sequences at NCBI GenBank so far..

So far, the lab has identified 26 grouper species from Indian coastal waters using multiple molecular markers and published research papers on authentication of sea food to reveal food fraud involving high valued grouper species.

The lab has developed sex-specific molecular markers to identify Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) male & female and strain-specific markers to identify GIFT and red tilapia strain.

CAGL has successfully completed 14 trial farming of L. vannamei post larvae to grow them in Indian commercial farms in association with the Oceanic Institute, Hawaii, USA to find out environment-friendly families to be cultured at different geographical locations in India.

More than 25 Colleges/Institutions benefitted from the Sequence services provided by the Lab. Nearly 270 candidates from various Universities and Institutes are being benefitted through 13 hands-on training on ‘Application of molecular markers for Fisheries’ and more than 28 students completed their research project work from CAGL.