ABOUT US
History of the Department :
The Department of Botany was established in August 2003 in this college and the college is affiliated to University of Calcutta. During 2015, Honours course of study was introduced. The department started with fifteen general students. Presently, there are forty Honours level students and about a hundred General students. Students of the Department of Botany, come from different walks of our society representing various socioeconomic and diverse religious backgrounds. The department has adopted the methods of multi-disciplinary research as well as practical appreciation. Apart from the conventional classroom teaching method, the department very often conducts seminars and workshops to disseminate about the recent development in discourse of Botany and allied subjects. Over the years, the teaching - learning methods have been upgraded into smart classroom systems to boost up teacher student interaction.
Speciality of the Department :
The department specially focuses on the study of plant diversity in the backdrop of rich biodiversity of the adjoining areas of the college. The department plans to host a mixture of herbarium collections, preserved plant samples, medicinal plants garden, conserved database and publications - all of which will provide tremendous opportunities for students and researchers to learn about the surrounding environment of the classroom.
C. Seminar Organized :
A seminar was jointly organized by the Department of Botany and the Department of Zoology on vector borne diseases in the year of 2019.
D. Other academic programme organized :
Field work, excursions in different phyto-geographical locations and cultural activities are an integral part of the curriculum. Students of the Department regularly visit different reputed institutes and Herbarium to gain versatile knowledge of plant sciences. We visit Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Botanical Garden (one of the largest plant garden in India) and Central National Herbarium - CAL, West Bengal, for the academic fulfillment of the study.
E. Ongoing research project - Nil
F. Completed research project
01. (Alkaloids of Catharanthus roseus and Datura stramonium granted by UGC)
G. Publication
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| Publication | 1. G. D. Mandal and A. K. Nandi 2017. Cytomixis with associated chromosomal Anomalies and the reproduction of Chlorophytum borivilianum Santapau & R. R. Fern. Taiwania, 62(2): 211-215. 2. Arnab Kumar De, Arijit Ghosh, Debabrata Dolui, Indraneel Saha, Malay Kumar Adak 2,4-D Hyper Accumulation Induced Cellular Responses of Azolla pinnata R. Br. to Sustain Herbicidal Stress; Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Tech Science Press (Scopus) (2020); Vol.89, No.4, 2020, pp.999-1017, doi:10.32604/phyton.2020.010828 3. Arnab Kumar De, Arijit Ghosh, Kankana Biswas, M.K. Adak; Moderation of physiological responses in rice plants with Azolla under 2,4-Dichlorophenoxy acetic acid stress; (2018) Molecular Biology Reports, Springer: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-018-4443-x 4. Dey Joyeeta, Saha Puja Rani, Debnath Priyanki and Sinha Rabindra Kumar. (2017). Comparative studies on some biochemical parameters of Cajanusscarabaeoides (L.) Thouars and Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp. Tropical Plant research. 4(2):314-318. 5. Dey Joyeeta and Sinha Rabindra Kumar. (2018). Seasonal pattern of Nitrate Reductase and Nitrogenase enzyme activities in Desmodium triflorum (L.)DC. - A folklore species of India. In : Trends in Frontal Areas of Plant Sciences (S. Sinha and R.K. Sinha, Eds.). Published by Narosa publishing House. Pp: 249-250. |
