Research activities relate to the heavy metal and environmental stress on plants, air pollution and impact on plant form, function and medicinal properties, genetic characterization of medicinal plants, ethnobotany and plant systematic, meristematic behaviour and secondary plant growth, tissue culture studies for alkaloid production, multiplication and preservation of endangered species, transmission and application of variation in plants, etc.

Herbal garden is also maintained within the campus for developing cultivation methods of medicinal and aromatic plants. It is proposed to set up independent labs in different disciplines such as Developmental Botany, Medicinal Botany, Plant Physiology, Environmental Botany, Phytotaxonomy, Genetics and Plant tissue Culture, etc.