There has been a substantial improvement in vegetative propagation techniques of fruit and plantation crops and seed production technologies in vegetables and flowers crops. Some of the advancements made are as follows

Fruit Crops

• Standardization of vegetative propagation techniques viz., Veneer grafting, soft wood grafting and chip budding in crops like aonla, bael, ber, cashew, custard apple, jamun, mango, sapota, jackfruit, walnut etc.
  
  
• Rapid methods of production of rooted cutting and commercial production for micro-propagation developed in grape.
  
  
• Suitable rootstocks standardized for citrus, grape, mango, apple, plum, peach, tea etc.
  
  
• Nursery inoculation of VAM has been found effective in improving survival after transplantation in mango, citrus, cashew, etc.
  
  
• Production of virus-free planting material using shoot tip grafting and micro budding developed in citrus

• Breeder seed production of over 120 open-pollinated high yielding varieties of vegetables.
  
  
• Improvement in hybrid seed production technology with development of male sterile lines in tomato, incompatible lines in cauliflower and gynoecious lines in cucumber and muskmelon.
  
  
• Technology developed for commercial production of hybrid TPS under short days conditions in plains. Three TPS populations namely HPS I/13, TPS C-3 and 92-PT-27 have been identified for release.
  
  
• Technology of serpentine layering for production of healthy planting material in black pepper, nutmeg through epicotyl grafting, approach grafting in clove and multiplication through healthy rhizome and tissue culture in ginger perfected.
  
  
• Technology for seed production in different seed spices standardized

• Commercial production of tissue cultured plants in carnation, gerbera, orchids etc available, besides hybrid seed is being produced in marigold and other crops.

• Conventional plant multiplication technology perfected in most of the crops. Tissue culture technology standardized in several crops for their vegetative propagation

Coconut, areca nut and oil palm

• Seed gardens for production of TxD and DxT hybrids in coconuts and indigenous tenera seed in oil palm established.
  
  
• Elite plant seed multiplication technique standardized in arecanut

Cashew and cocoa

• Near self-sustainability achieved in production of planting material in cashew.

• Soft wood grafting has been successfully adopted for producing cocoa grafts.
  
  
• It is possible to produce 6 lakh cocoa grafts per year at CPCRI

• Technique for vegetative propagation of tea by inter-nodal cuttings standardized. Tissue culture is also successful
  
  
• Vegetative propagation techniques like single-node cuttings and mallet cuttings standardized to obtain true-to-the-type planting material in coffee
  
  
• Grafting techniques at seedling stage to circumvent the problem of nematodes and top working to convert moribund plantations into productive ones developed in cocoa

• Polyclonal seeds, budded stumps and poly bag plants are available as planting material.
  
  
• Poly bag plants are more popular since they start yielding a year earlier