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About the Department

Established in 1960 at the 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, Biosystematics, Morpholgy and Embryology. Now it has established itself as a research centre in Experimental Morphogenesis, Plant Biotechnology, Nematology, Seed Pathology, Biosystematics, Nano Science, 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 RUSA 1.0, 2.0 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, AV Humboldt,DANIDA, 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. With heavy economically important specious Department learning recourses like charts, slides, museum, apeciueas , and facilities like computers, interner, LCD for independent learning.Botanical excursions are organized to study local flora and plant diversity of the desert and mountain ecosystems . Department has support from the forest department and students are encouraged to attend their trainings and workshops. PG students also do DST- KARYA summer internships in premier CSIR. labs of the countr 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, RT-PCR, Inverted microscope, Capillary electrophoresis and other equipments for routine laboratory work.The first phase of DST-FIST programme (2009-14) was completed successfully. At present the Department has completed UGC approved SAP-DRS Phase II programme (2015-2020)

Ph.D. Programme :

Thrust Areas

  • Plant Pathology and Microbiology
  • Morphology & Developmental Anatomy
  • Molecular Biology and Plant Biotechnology
  • Plant Physiology, Biochemistry, Herbal Medicines & Bioactive compounds
  • Algal Biotechnology and Lichenology
  • Conservation Biology , Ecology and Biosystematics
  • Stress Physiology & Nanotechnology