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Welcome. DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. RAJA PEARY MOHAN COLLEGE. About the Department:. The Department of Botany started as undergraduate pass course (Gen. Course) teaching department in 1956, when Biological Sciences were introduced in our college.

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  1. Welcome

  2. DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY RAJA PEARY MOHAN COLLEGE

  3. About the Department: • The Department of Botany started as undergraduate pass course (Gen. Course) teaching department in 1956, when Biological Sciences were introduced in our college. • Honours course was introduced after a long gap of 40 years in 1996. • It’s the youngest laboratory based department of this college and still a long path to be covered before a satisfactory level of development is achieved. • With assistance from UGC and our own resources, we are trying to upgrade our department to a desirable standard.

  4. FACULTY PROFILE :-

  5. Programs run by the department • Teaching & learning • Research Programs • Field Study and explorations • Digital Phyto-informatics center

  6. Teaching & learning • Since 1956, department of botany is successfully running general courses in Botany. • During 1996, our department has introduced Honours Courses in Botany. Both general & Hons. Courses are run following the guidelines and syllabus of University of Calcutta. Students regularly attend both theoretical and practical classes. • To improve the quality of teaching as well as learning process and to prepare students to adapt changing scenario of plant science, and despite severe constrain in floor spacing gradually have taken major initiatives as following-

  7. Teaching & learning continued: • Besides the conventional chalk and talk, use of modern audio-visual aids in class room teaching • Organizing regular class test, remedial coaching, oral presentation, involving students to publish wall magazine and articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals • Field study in different phyto-geographical regions

  8. RESEARCH PROGRAMS With an objective to augment latest developments in plant sciences with teaching & learning process of students as well as faculty members and to upgrade departmental infrastructure, we initiated research programs in the following broad areas- • Floral biodiversity, systematic, ethnobotanical and medicinal plant study • Phycology (algal culture, systematics & biodiversity, identification, characterization & antimicrobial study of major algal constituents/products) • Plant cell biology(mitosis and meiotic study, chromotoxicity, MN assay etc.,) & mutation biology (gamma ray & EMS-induced mutagenesis, isolation and analysis) • Plant physiology &biochemistry • Legume (grass pea, lentil, beans) breeding & stress biology (abiotic stress factors like salinity, arsenic, drought and heavy metals, redox regulations, thiol-cascade modulations, antioxidant defense cross-talk and tolerance)

  9. Research Projects Undertaken 1. Collection, characterization and identification of some aquatic flora of ponds, shallow water bodies and swampy lands of Hooghly district, West Bengal-funded by UGC, PI: NiluHalder 2. Comparative response of Fenugreek (Trigonellafoenum-graecumL.) and grass pea (Lathyrussativus L.) to arsenic and NaCl-induced oxidative stress-funded by UGC, PI: Dr. DibyenduTalukdar

  10. FACULTY PUBLICATION BOOKS/Proceedings JOURNALS

  11. FACULTY PUBLICATION JCI & Impact factors Research area-wise

  12. Student Publications • Accepted and in press -03 a) Title: Inventorying floral diversity and ecology in Kalyani area of Nadia district, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Current Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, 2014 b) Title: Status, compositions and invasiveness of taxa in Kalyani, West Bengal, India. Central European Journal of Experimental Biology, 2014 c) Title: Compositions, distributions and status of economic plants among invasive floras of Uttarpara, Hooghly, West Bengal, India. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Research,

  13. Field Study & Exploration • Since 2005, at least 41 field studies have been conducted by the department in different phyto-geographical areas of West Bengal & Eastern Himalayas As follows:-

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  26. Achievements after last NAAC visit:

  27. Digital phyto-informatics center • Our department has taken a major initiative to digitalize the knowledge and information gathered during the field study and exploration. • This approach is unique in this region, as for the first time we are digitalizing the herbarium specimens of our department collected, pressed and dried since 1961, through scanning/photographing of pressed specimens with brief description of the taxa to develop a user-friendly and web-accessible virtual herbarium. • Over 300 specimens have been digitalized so far, and the process is still going on covering medicinal plant, endangered & invasive plant data bases, cryptogams, Gymnosperms, Lichens and algal flora • Our main objective is to update and equip our students in plant study but along with this we also want to help non-botanist academia and entrepreneurs in their queries regarding plant resources

  28. Achievements after the last NAAC peer visit (August, 2005)

  29. Strength of the Department • Faculty: Young, Dynamic, Energetic and Motivated. NET qualified. Ph.D. holders with proper Research Training & Aptitude • Teachers with long experience in UG and PG teaching • One of the faculty member-Member, UG board of Studies (University of Calcutta) since 2000 • A close and strong connection among Faculty members, Students – present and past, and Departmental Staffs

  30. Weakness of the Department • Acute shortage of Teachers/Faculty • Absence of trained specimen collector/s • Acute shortage of floor space • Infrastructural deficiencies in establishing vital laboratories like Tissue Culture Cell and Molecular Biology Microbiology Plant pathology Algal and microbial culture room etc.

  31. Future Target/Plans: Objectives: Resource Generation and Utilization • Application for New/Additional Teaching posts. • Application for Major and Minor Research Projects with scope for Research Associates, Scholars and Assistants. • Development of laboratories for Tissue Culture and Microbiology. • Re-development of medicinal plant gardens (roof top). • Introduction of self-financed short term vocational diploma courses. • Tapping of external funding agencies for resource generation- (already applied for Boost - I program of DBT, WB). • Preparation of PBR of the surrounding locality (Raghunathpur gram-panchayat is already selected as the 1st target village- preliminary survey already done.) • Activation of alumni association • Upgradation of departmental library • Periodic seminars/workshops

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