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| name              = Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research
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| mottoeng          = Health for All
| established       = 24, November 1992
| director          = [[Dr. Jitendra Kumar]] 
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| city              = [[Anand, Gujarat|Anand]]
| state             = [[Gujarat]]
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| country           = [[India]]
| affiliations      = [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]]
| website           = {{URL|http://www.dmapr.org.in}}
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The '''Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research''' is one of the 25 project directorates established by the [[Indian Council of Agricultural Research]]. It was established as National Research Centre for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants on 24 November 1992 at [[Boriavi]] in [[Anand district]] of [[Gujarat]] for the quality production, development of new varieties and development of [[good agricultural practices]] of medicinal and aromatic plants. The mandate crops of the institute are ''[[Aloe barbadensis]], [[Withania somnifera]], [[Plantago ovata]], [[Cymbopogon flexuosus]], [[Cymbopogon martinii]], [[Chlorophytum borivilianum]] and [[Cassia angustifolia]]''.

This institute has got outreach programme and it coordinates and monitors research work of 23 centres spread across the country working on various other medicinal and aromatic plants. To its credit, it has released 26 varieties of medicinal plants and seven varieties of aromatic plants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dmapr.org.in/Research/CropImprovement.html |title=DMAPR; Crop Improvement |publisher=DMAPR |accessdate=8 April 2013}}</ref> The DMAPR is also maintaining 830 [[germplasm]] of medicinal and aromatic plants at their Field Gene Bank.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dmapr.org.in/Research/FieldGeneBank.html |title=DMAPR; Field Gene Bank |publisher=DMAPR |accessdate=7 April 2013}}</ref>


The DMAPR houses [[Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Association of India]] which publishes the ''[[Open Access Journal of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants]]'', a scholarly research open access journal related to medicinal and aromatic plants.

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.dmapr.org.in/index.htm DMAPR]
* [http://www.dmapr.org.in/MAPAI/ MAPAI]

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[[Category:Indian Council of Agricultural Research]]
[[Category:Research institutes in Gujarat]]
[[Category:Anand district]]
[[Category:Medicinal plants]]
[[Category:Research institutes established in 1992]]
[[Category:1992 establishments in Gujarat]]