Ph. D. in Botany

The Department of Botany has been in the forefront of teaching and research in Plant Sciences since its establishment in 1974. The original aim of providing quality education to the educationally underprivileged tribes of the northeastern states has been successfully fulfilled by the Department. The Department stands today as a unique institution in the northeastern region of the country where multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching and research in plant sciences has established permanent roots. The uniqueness of the Department essentially lies in the fact that within the Department’s faculty, there are experts and active researchers representing almost all areas of plant sciences. We believe that in order to be effective, postgraduate teaching must be done by teachers who are also actively involved in research in their respective areas of specialization. We have developed a teaching programme that stresses on the uniformity of principles of macro as well as micro molecular mechanisms in all living systems. Our faculty is very often called upon to teach in other Universities especially in the northeastern region of the country. We also organize refresher courses to help in updating knowledge and skills of teachers in colleges and other universities of the region as well as other parts of the country. The Department also organizes summer school for undergraduate students with Botany (Honours) as well as allied subjects to make them aware of various developments taking place in Plant Sciences.