About the Department

Established in 1960 at the erstwhile Jaswant College, Jodhpur, the Department was shifted to Rajasthan College, Jaipur in July 1963 and to its present building in August 1974. It is one of the largest and oldest department of Botany in the country, known for its pioneering work in the fields of Mycology, Plant Pathology. Morphology and Embryology. Now it has established itself as a research centre in Experimental Morphogenesis, Plant Biotechnology, Nematology, Seed Pathology, Taxonomy, Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry, Plant Ecology, Cytogenetics and Developmental Botany. The Department has 16 different laboratories where basic and applied research is conducted. The Department has received generous financial support from UGC (DRS) and DST(FIST), in addition to support from UGC, CSIR, DST, DBT, ICAR, ICMR, Rockefeller Foundation, DAAD and other funding agencies. The faculty has been awarded prestigious fellowships including Fulbright, Rockefeller, European Commission, DAAD, A v Humboldt, DFG, National overseas Commonwealth, INSA etc.

Research students include NET qualified various fellowship holders, Post Doctoral Fellows, Research Associates and Women Scientist awardees.

Infrastructural Facilities

The Department has well-equipped research laboratories, growth chambers. one central instrument room, seminar hall. four teaching labs, two major and six small class rooms for elective papers, one internationally recognised herbarium containing more than 20,000 preserved specimens and a Botanical garden and 2 green houses. Major instruments available in the Department include HPLC, HPTLC, High Speed Refrigerated Centrifuge, Freeze Drier, Incubator-Shakers, Laminar Air Flow, GLC, Water Purification System, Electronic Balance, Electrophoresis, Deep Freezers, Trinocular Microscope, Microscopes with photographic attachment, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Automated Microtome, UV-VIS Spectrophotometer, PCR, Gel-Doc system, Automated Nuclear acid extractor, Seed germinator and other equipments for routine laboratory work.

The first phase of DST-FIST programme (2009-14) was completed successfully. At present the Department is running UGC approved SAP-DRS Phase II programme (2015-2020).

Ph.D. Programme

Thrust Areas

• • Plant Tissue Culture
  • Biotechnology
  • Secondary Plant Metabolites
  • Bioactive Compounds
  • Molecular Biology
  • Microbiology and Plant Biochemistry.
• • Mycology and Plant Pathology
  • Seed Science and Technology
  • Nematology
  • Environmental Biology
  • Stress Biology
• • Morphology
  • Biosystamatics and Cytogenetics

Master's Programme

MASTER OF SCIENCE (BOTANY)

• Seats : 25
• Duration : Four Semesters (Two Years)

MASTER OF SCIENCE (BIOTECHNOLOGY)

(Self Financing Course)

• Seats : 25 (+5 NRI Seats)
• Duration : Four Semesters (Two Years)

Faculty

Head & Associate Professor

• Manju Sharma

Associate Professors

• Soumana Datta
• Sumita Kachhwaha
• Payal Lodha
• Vidya Patni
• Gajendra Pal Singh
• R.A. Sharma
• Rekha Vijayvergia

Assistant Professors

• Manmohan Arya
• Navneet Singh Chaudhary
• Gunjan Dubey
• Deepika Gunpal
• Shikha Gupta
• Amit Kotiya
• Anil Kumar
• Lalita
• Poonam Meena
• Archana Meena
• Vinay Kumar Meena
• Rishikesh Meena
• Praveen Mohil
• Preeti Mishra
• Aparna Pareek
• Neelam Poonar
• Prakash
• Priya
• Indu Singh Sankhla
• Bindu Sharma
• Chandra Pal Singh
• Jai Singh
• Praveen Soni