Botany

Welcome to Botany Department Page

Botany Department
 Established in 1967 as Junior Department offering classes for Pre degree.
 Upgraded to UG Department during the year 1983.
 Currently offering B.Sc. Botany with elective paper Crop Improvement and complementary
courses Chemistry and zoology.
 Open Course: Applied Botany
Value added Course offered during the past five years
 Biodiversity and Conservation (2022-2023)
 EthnoBotany (2021-2022)
 Bio-Entrepreneurship (2020-2021)
 Mushroom cultivation (2019-2020)
 Composting & Biofertilizer Technology (2018-2019)
Facilities

 Well-equipped laboratory with Museum and Field Laboratory.
 Facilities such as Binocular microscope (with light source), Binocular stereo microscopes with
attached camera systems, Colorimeter, Camera Lucida mirror type, Camera Lucida prism type,
Centrifuge, Chromatography, Digital weighing balance, Dissection microscopes, LCD
projectors, Hot air oven, Monocular microscopes with light source, Ocular & Stage
micrometres, pH meters, Refrigerator, Rotary Microtome, etc.
 Department maintains a library with more than 1200 books and various reference books and
books for NET.
 E-books and study materials like Audio Visual aids  -CDs , PPTS,

Consultancy & Extension services

 Festival of Plants “Sanjeevani” arranged for high school and higher secondary students. Exhibition,
Seminar, Traditional food court, Stalls on Plant based products
 Peoples Biodiversity Register (PBR) preparation
 Tree survey as part of Green Audit

Research Projects
UGC funded minor research project
 Genetic Effects of Consanguinity among the hospital populations of Palakkad District, Kerala
Principal Investigator – Dr. Jyothilekshmi.P
Major Events Organized by the Department
 International Webinar on Wetland Conservation
 National Science Day Seminar – A Talk on Recent Developments in Plant Science
 National Workshop – Awareness of Intellectual Property Rights
 Seminar on Medicinal Plants of Kerala
 Expo de Plantae
 Seminar on Traditional Knowledge
 Research Methodology and Ethics
 Webinar on World Environmental Day – Ecosystem Restoration
 Wetland day celebration- sponsored by KERALA STATE COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE
TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
 UGC sponsored two days National Seminar Plants and their Healing Touch : An Overview of
Nature’s Bounty.2015
 Nature Camp at Parambikulam