A meeting was organised to review the research work being done on vegetable crops under Consortia Research Project (CRP) on Agro-Biodiversity, funded by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICHR), New Delhi and National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources at ICAR-Indian Vegetable Research Institute (IIVR) here on Tuesday. This project is being conducted by six research institutes of the country including Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Indian Vegetable Research Institute (IVRI), Varanasi, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU), Coimbatore, Indian Horticultural Research Institute (IHEI), Bengaluru, and National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), Thrissur. The review programme was chaired by Dr Gyanendra Pratap Singh, Director, NBPGR, New Delhi and co-chaired by Dr TK Behera, Director, IVRI, Varanasi. Project coordinators from six institutions presented the work done and progress. In this project special research is being done on the biodiversity and disease resistance of brinjal, cucumber and ladyfinger. This programme was conducted by Dr Shailesh Tiwari, senior scientist of the institute. Dr Sushil Pandey, Dr Chitra Devi, and Dr Pragya from National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, New Delhi participated. Head of the Department of Crop Improvement Division, Dr Nagendra Roy, Dr PM Singh, etc were present in this programme.