It consists of the Department of Biochemistry and the Department of Plant Physiology. These are the largest departments in the country with a faculty strength of 13 and 18 scientists. Advanced basic and strategic research is an integral part of the student's thesis research. Students also gain knowledge in the fields of genetics and molecular biology through minor courses. Students of these disciplines are equipped with the skills to be used in studies involving large germplasm phenotyping for various constituent traits, quantification of various plant processes and omics tools along with classical physiological and biochemical tools, Biostimulant characterization, climate change effects and stress responses are used. Mitigation studies, genetic transformation and gene function analysis with transgenic approaches, purification and characterization of useful metabolites, nutritional quality characterization, recombinant protein expression studies, allele mining, genotyping and GWAS, genome editing, computers for precision agriculture and bioprospecting Vision aided high throughput phenotyping of germplasm etc. The students are trained in line with the need of agro-industry and research institutions involved in the development of crop varieties and crop management technologies.